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THE HUMAN BODY 

A VOLUME OF 
DIVINE REVELATIO NS 

Governed by Laws of God's Ordaining, Equally With 

the Planetary System, or Those Written on "Tables of 

Stone" or in the Bible 



"I Will Write My Law in Their Hearts 
and Put It in Their Inward Parts" 



By HENRY S. TANNER, M. D. 



THE HUMAN BODY A VOLUME OF DIVINE 
REVELATIONS 



Governed by laws of God's ordaining, equally with those written on 

"Tables of Stone" or in the Bible. 

BY 








HENRY S. TANNER, M. D. 

Referring to man, the Creator is credited with saying: "I will 
write my law in their hearts, and put it in their inward parts." 
"Know ye not that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit?" — Paul 
To bring these truths out from obscurity, refashioned in conformity 
with the evolutionary spirit of the age, is the aim of the author. 

Dr. Tanner has copyrighted a book entitled: "Pre-Historic Man;" 
also "Forty Days Without Food." This phenomenal experience of 
the writer won for him the title of the "Boss Hero of the Age." 
Epigramatically stated, he lives now, as then : 
"For the wrongs that need resistance; 
For the sick that need assistance; 
For the bright future in the distance; 
For the good that he can do." 



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Copyright 1908 
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DEDICATION, TO THE READER. 

The question uppermost in the minds of most people, when a new thought 
is presented, or an old one remodeled for their contemplation, is not, is it 
feasible, desirable or practical; but is it popular, or in other words have 
the rulers in the synagogues or schools of philosophy endorsed it? I do not 
pretend to argue the question technically from the standpoint of authority; 
therefore my views as expressed in the following pages, which assumes that 
the human body is a volume of Divine Revelations, and that the FOOD ques- 
tion just as properly belongs to the realm of theology as to physiology, are 
simply the views of a layman, and as such are presented to the reader for 
what they are worth. 

My apology for thus intruding is, that I find in all the ages the "Great 
I Am" has chosen from the ranks of the lowly, those whom he has chosen 
for a specific work. Abraham was a tent maker; Joseph was called from ob- 
scurity; Moses was called from feeding his flocks; Gideon was called from 
the quiet of the plains: Elisha came out of the desert; David from the voca- 
tion of a shepherd boy; Jesus of Nazareth from the carpenter's bench; the 
disciples from the vocation of fishermen; Abraham Lincoln, (fore-ordained 
like Moses to be the emancipator of four millions of human chattels), had no 
college education; the writer, fore-ordained for his work to reveal the won- 
derful power of human endurance under prolonged fasting, came from the 
"wilds of the woolly west" from comparative obscurity into world-wide fame. 
Even Baalam's ass was called into requisition when the Inspiring power 
wished to convey a message to the stupid, drunken prophet that bestrode it. 

If a Divine power could utilize an ass through whom to convey a mes- 
sage to humanity, is it presumptious in the writer, who makes no claims to 
a technical knowledge of theology, to assume that he has felt the impelling 
power of an inspiring force commanding him to "proclaim the gospel of 
health" to the hungering masses, thirsting for knowledge of the life here and 
hereafter. He has always responded to the cry of the needy in the past 
and as the needs of the present are more pressing than ever before, the re- 
sponse will be in the ratio of the need. Now whether I have a message to 
give to the world in this crisis of our national affairs, I leave my readers to 
judge for themselves, after perusing the contents of this book. 

There are those in all ranks of humanity who assume that my postu- 
late that the human body is a volume of Divine Revelations, equally with 
those written on "tables of stone" or in the Bible, rests solely on the ipse 
dixit of an individual, consequently not authoritative. 

My authority for my assumption is the highest of all authorities, one 
that cannot be gainsayed. He is on record as saying, "I will write my law 
in their hearts and put it in their upward parts." Paul affirms that our 
bodies are "temples of the Holy Spirit." The Messiah says, "Lo, I am with 
you always, even unto the ends of the world," and further, "If ye do whatso- 
ever I command you, my Father will love you, and will come and take up 
His abode with you." What does this indwelling spirit of "peace , good will 



4 THE HUMAN BODY 

to man" come for? Is He a mere passive spectator, as silent and impotent 
as a Pagen idol, or is he the animating power of the entity acted upon? Are 
not Divine laws written on the human heart and put in man's inward parts 
just as sacred and binding as laws written in a book or on "tables of stone?" 
I so assume, and further that those laws are as profitable for doctrine 
and instruction in righteousness as any written in the Book of Books, which 
truths I reverance and adore. 

Our bodies nevertheless are the highest, grandest, chief excellence, 
the crowning glory of all the Creator's creations, and His inspiration found 
in that volume are "new every morning and fresh every evening." The poet 
is on record as saying, "The chief study of man should be man." If by that 
affirmation he meant that man should be studied as a volume of Divine reve- 
lations, I respond. Amen! 

I take the position that we should reverance the "harp of a thousand 
strings," as David termed it, and regard it as sacred, equally with the Bible. 
Evidently, Professor Oliver Wendall Holmes, the poet, scholar, phil- 
anthropist, philosopher, wit, etc., so regarded it. Reverently and adoringly 
he wrote: 

"Not in the starry heavens alone, 

Where God hath built His blazing throne, 

Nor yet alone in earth below, 

With belted seas that come and go, 

And endless isles of sunlit green 

Is all the CREATOR'S glory seen. 

Look in upon thy wondrous frame, 

Eternal wisdom still the same." 

Clairvoyantly, like Solomon, he saw 

"The smooth, soft air, with pulse-like wave, 

Murmuring through the air-cell caves; 

Saw a stream of blood through auricles rush, 

Fired with new and crimson blush; 

While all the debris of decay, 

Saw the liver screen away; 

And purpled with venous blood, to start, 

For the right auricle of the heart. 

He saw the heart no rest did ask, 
Forever laboring at its task; 
While far and wide a pulse-like jet, 
Leaped forth f o fill the woven net, 
Which in unnumbered crossing tides, 
The flood of crimson life divides; 
Then kindling each decaying part, 
Flow back again to "pitcher" heart. 



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He saw the silver cord protected strong, 
With vertebrate, bone and silvery thong; 
He saw the chord of seeming white, 
Braided with seven-hued light; 
Linked by reason's guiding rein 
By myriad rings in trembling chains; 
He saw the wondrous brain that holds, 
All thought in its mysterious folds. 

He saw the cloven spheres, where dwells, 
A God enthroned, amid clustering cells; 
He saw the Godlike gleams it sheds, 
Along the chords of glassy threads." 

And thus reading my Bible as Holmes read it, I am forced to exclaim in 
an ecstacy of delight, "Wondrous art Thou, O God, in all Thy ways and 
works." 

Reader, I consign this volume of Divine revelations to your care and 
keeping. Wherever you go, it will go with you. If you make your bed in 
"hades" it will be with you. If you are climbing the "hills of difficulty" with 
the hope and intent to reach the "Delectable Mountains" that Bible your body 
will be your constant companion. If you walk through the "valley and 
shadow of death, it will be with you to the end of your earthly journey. 
Keep it pure and clean, a fit temple for the Holy Spirit. "Lo, I am with you 
ALWAYS, even unto the end of the world," is the promise of your Guide, 
Counsellor, Great High Priest, your Father and your God. He promises, "If 
ye do whatsoever I command you, my Father will love you, and come and 
take up His abode with you." What then? Your pathway to a "Pisgah's 
mount of vision" will be arbored with foliage, and its banks with crysanthe- 
mums, and the atmosphere delightfully perfumed with heliotrope, orange 
blossoms and honeysuckles. You can mount up as on "Eagles wings," to 
view the landscape o'er. 

The following is an appropriate prayer for one aspiring to Godlikeness 
of character and achievement and to rise superior to the "lustful longing for 
the fleshpots, etc.," which should be the central aspiration around which 
all else revolves. 

"Father, grant Thy love divine, 
To make this mystic temple thine; 
When wasting years and wearying strife. 
Have sapped the "silver cord" of life. 
When darkness gathers over all, 
And the last tottering pillars fall, 
Take the poor dust, thy mercy warms, 
And mould it into heavenly forms." 



6 THE HUMAN BODY 

INTRODUCTION 

It has been well said: "Every age has its dominanat thought. That 
of ancient Greece was beauty, and she excelled in sculptured grace of statue 
and temple; that of Rome was power, and she conquered the world; that 
of the sixteenth century was reform, and states and religions were torn 
into warring factions; that of the eighteenth century was liberty, and nations 
threw off the thraldom of empires; that of the nineteenth century was pro- 
gress, and mountains were tunneled, rivers bridged, and by the swift wings 
of electricity, time and space are almost annihilated." 

This twentieth century is the golden age of opulence; it is the brilliant 
and marvelous age of electricity. The world has had its stone age, and bronze 
and iron and silver; but this is the greatest of them all, for now is the full 
burst of mechanical marvels and electrical wonders. The evolutions of this 
age along all lines, prospectively, will do more to harmonize science and 
religion, than any that have preceded it. Electrical science is giving us 
glimpses at least as to how the world could be made out of nothing; not 
nothing in fact — but nothing that can be taken cognizance of by our physical 
senses, which nothingness has been the bone of contention between science 
and religion from time immemorial. How much of absolute nothing it 
would take to make the smallest conceivable particle of something, has 
puzzled the minds of men of all ages. The Radio Energy, philosophy, 
offers a plausible solution. The champion of Electricity comes to the front 
with a "flag of truce" and calls for a suspension of hostilities between 
Science and Religion, and says: "Come, let us reason together and see if the 
Radio energy, philosophy, will not settle the dispute. 

The ruling sentiment of this age of marvels is, "Ring out the old, Ring 
in the new; Ring out the false, Ring in the true." 

The present age is one of new thought, new activities, innovations, etc. 
These new occasions point to new duties. Time makes and demands changes. 
The problems of the nineteenth century must be solved by forceful thinkers, 
men who dare to think for themselves, not by those who are governed by the 
shibboleths of the ancients. Everyone is looking for strong new thought in 
every line. The time has been, in the not distant past, when anything that 
was not Anglo Saxon had not the ghost of a chance for recognition. The "sur- 
vival of the fittest" was the ruling sentiment. Our art, our literature, our 
religion, our philosophy, our manners, our customs, our medical institutions, 
it was assumed, were the ''whole thing." There was no room for improve- 
ment. It was a plausible theory, but from the pleasant dream we have been 
rudely awakened by Oriental students, as occasion offered, who pointed out 
the claims of the Orient to recognition, as also having models of civilization 
worthy the attention of idealists of all nations. 

What is especially galling is that the Orientals held up the looking 
glass before the representatives of Western civilization, and compelled them 
to see themselves as others see them. They rudely awakened the American 
Patriots to a knowledge of the fact that the science and philosophy of the 



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Occident was 3000 years in arrears of the Orient. Under compulsion, it in 
now admitted we must respect the Jap, and after him the Chinaman, as 
soon as he has learned to handle a gun. The truths pressing home hard on 
our leaders of thought are grievous to bear. They do not like to be dis- 
turbed in their reveries of the English speaking race owning the whole earth. 
Why? Because the knowledge and light with which the Orient is flooding 
the Occident, forces them to think; compels them to readjust their opinions 
to fit new facts, to get rid of race prejudice, and make room for ideas in 
keeping with the times, and in general to employ their minds, how to meet 
the exigencies of the age — very well illustrated in our naval activities in the 
Pacific, decreed to ultimately voyage around the world, the object to safe- 
guard our commerce; to what end the future alone can reveal. 

All this is not agreeable, because we are not used to it. Think 
of it, says the disgruntled Westerner, that a Jap — a mere "chink" — can more 
than hold his own with a white man; is as good or better than a Russian in 
a fight. Well! We have got to take our turn in being looked down upon, 
and we might as well take our medicine without any wry faces. It is fore- 
ordained and predestinated so to be. With what measure we have meted it 
out to the Orient, "it will be meted out to us again." 

To come nearer home, conditions 'round about us are compelling ue 
to act and think, or be lost in the shuffle of ever-changing environments. 
Everything is characterized by change. Every enterprise is looking for strong 
new thought. The great newspapers have men upon their staffs who are 
paid large salaries for novel ideas. They write nothing. They study along 
the line of novelties. 

My novel experience of fasting forty days created a profound sensa- 
tion to the end of the telegraphic world, because of its novelty. No person 
who has fasted an equal length of time has succeeded in making even a ripple 
in the newspaper world. Ask the journalist, why? He will tell you such 
events are no longer novelties, they are ancient history. 

The publisher wants new combinations of type, happy expressions, 
catch words, of which the style of Dorothy Dix is an apt illustration. 

Never before was originality at such a premium. The world makes 
way for men with new ideas. If it be practical, it will lead him on from 
one success to another, for the expression of original, forceful thought, is the 
greatest generator of new power. If you, my reader, wish to make way, to 
be in the "vanguard of up to date" enterprises, don't be afraid to be original; 
don't be afraid to follow your intuitions. Whether you are preparing for 
your life work, or have already given it momentum, think and act for your- 
self. Don't be an echo of somebody else. Don't be a leaner, a cringing, ser- 
vile slave to any institution, secular or religious. 

The enterprise in which I am engaged may be conjectured to be icono- 
clastic, but if so, I aim to show conclusively that if destructive, I hope to 
prove myself constructive in time, on the principle of the builder who tears 



S THE HUMAN BODY 

down an old shack — tottering to its fall — that he may substitute a sky-scraper 
in its place, that shall combine ornate beauty with utility. 

Among the novelties in ecclesiastical journalism, is the claim that 
the food question just as properly belongs to the domain of theology as physi- 
ology. To bolster up that innovation, I am in the field to give zest to the 
ideas presented in the following editorial, credited to the Christian Standard, 
but which I clipped from the "Pentecost," a religious paper published in Los 
Angeles, California. It reads: 



HOLINESS AND HYGIENE. 

If holiness and hygiene are closely related where matters of dress 
are concerned, they are surely even more so, as regards the food we eat. 

If we are to eat and drink to the glory of God (1st Corinthians, 10- 
31 ( the practical application of hygienic law, for holiness sake, becomes an 
imperative necessity, since that which harms the body is offensive to the 
Divine occupant, the Holy Ghost. 

Holy Writ informs us that the "Life of all flesh is in the blood." (Gen- 
esis 9-14). This would indicate that pure blood is a necessity, or at least is 
highly conducive to a pure life. An eminent English authority says, "An 
the food so is the blood." Pure food makes pure blood, and pure blood 
builds up a healthy body. The vital character of the blood is very strongly 
asserted in the Scriptures and confirmed by the researches of the best 
physiologists. Such food as will render the blood impure is injurious to the 
body, and offensive to the Spirit. 

"Yea," further; "knowing that certain foods are causes of 
disease, we eat them notwithstanding, thus gratifying our appetites 
with little regard for consequences. Tables in Christian homes 
all over our broad land are spread with many things to excite and disorder 
the nerves; greasy foods to derange the liver, mixtures which few stomachs 
can digest, and much that is unnatural, a temptation to excess and a heavy 
draught upon the nervous power that must dissolve and dispose of such 
heterogeneous mixtures. Just how all this is to be reconciled with the pro- 
fession and life of holiness, I confess I'm not able to see, or wise enough 
to explain. 

It is very easy, however, for a thoughtful mind to discover that there 
is something wrong with the customs of the people of to-day along these 
lines, from the very beginning of things. 

Babies from the time they cut their teeth are fed upon articles such 
as can only tend to the development of the grosser part of their nature and 
render them vicious and brutal. Man, fathers, assemble in legislative halls 
to enact laws for the suppression of crime, and then adjourn to partake of 
banquets and sit down daily to tables laden with viands, the consumption of 
which can only result in the propagation of criminal tendencies in their off- 
spring. 

Is it not high time that the influence of the HOLINESS movement was 



A VOLUME OP DIVINE REVELATIONS 9 

being felt more perceptibly in this connection? Should not holiness regu- 
late the "bill of fare" in our homes and eliminate from it such things as are 
recognized by science and common sense as being deleterious to the body 
and brain? 

Is it consistent to preach against tobacco and alcohol, so long as we 
ourselves are bound by the tea and coffee habit and given daily to the con- 
sumption of drinks which furnish no real nourishment, but belong only in the 
list of narcotics and stimulents? Is it consistent for us to either advocate 
the doctrine of Divine Healing, or pray for God's blessing upon medicines 
used for the restoration of the body, and at the same time feed it upon the 
flesh of ever fed, over driven, fevered, abused animals, almost to the exclusion 
of the pure, clean, nutriment with which God has so abundantly supplied us 
in the vegetable kingdom? Has holiness no part to play here? Beloved, how 
shall it be? 



RAPID RELIGIOUS EVOLUTION 

This is a practical, changing age in religion, as in all things else; as a 
sequence, very skeptical. . The searchlight is being used in the domain of 
theology as never before. Laymen are doing their own thinking; the ecclesi- 
astical formulas that emanated from the old theological sepulchers of the 
distant past — that are full only of dead men's bones — are being consigned to 
obhvion, that the fair form of Truth — "born in a manger" — may have ample 
room for the development of all that is high, holy, exalting and inspiring. 
There is a general awakening all along the line. "Back to the Mosaic and 
Messianic teachings" is the keynote of the times. 

Examples of rapid religious evolution are constantly coming to public 
notice. They are interesting indications of the course of modern religious 
thought, relative to doctrines and church methods. All show a marked ten- 
dency toward the adaptation of religion to fit the general progress of the 
twentieth century enlightenment. 

For example, a minister of Jersey City, N. J., writes: "I have 150 boys 
from the ages of 8 to 18, in constant training as athletes. The basement of 
my church is a gymnasium. Here the young athletes gather every Tuesday 
night, and have gymnastic exercises. A visitor might drop in at any time — 
whether I'm there or not — and he would never hear a word of vulgarity or 
blasphemy. My course is fully justified. ***The Y. M. C. A.'s — with many 
others — see the necessity of a training for man in his entirity. It has learned 
that the bright rising generation is not enamoured of the orthodoxy of ''auld 
lang syne," but that religious methods, like everything else, must adapt them- 
selves to the age in which we live. 

Thousands of business men have been driven into bankruptcy because 
they could not adapt themselves to conditions by more economical and novel 
methods of production and distribution. 

Thousands of clergymen have been laid on the ■helf — the one fit place 
for fossils — because they were "at ease in Zion," and thus unable to "read 



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the signs of the times" and adjust themselves thereto by adopting new and 
more effective measures. Thousands of churches have died because they did 
not know how to adapt themselves to their new environments. 



EVOLUTION NOT CONFINED TO CHRISTENDOM. 

Evolution is making headway against the solid front of Judaism, even. 
Says Dr. Emil C. Hirch, of Chicago Temple Israel: ''Many of you, no doubt, 
hold that the manuscripts of the Bible have been preserved as written, with- 
out the alteration of a jot or tittle; and that its teachings are literally 
true and infallible. But where such sentiments are found among Jews, it 
is because they have been absorbed from the Christian theologians. The 
text of the Bible has been corrupted. The Bible did not produce religion, but 
religion produced the Bible. It is the product of human genius. But al- 
though it is not infallible, its ideas are as valuable as if it were. The Bible 
may have its faults, and yet be an inestimable treasure to the pious heart." 

I quite agree with the learned Rabbi. The inerrancy of the Bible will 
not stand the searchlight of truth in this mind-opening age. "Higher Criti- 
cism" makes no such claim. The object of this age should be, not to establish 
a book or creed, but to discover truth; and if some of the vitally important 
truths are recorded in the Bible, it must be acknowledged by all candid 
skeptics, that while they are no more, they are no less true, and while they 
should be received with no more, they should be received with no less avidity 
than if found anywhere else. 

Darwin said: "The mission of science in every age has been to correct 
the errors of the preceding age, and formulate others for the succeeding age 
to correct." 

What is true of science is true also of traditional theology. Errors 
have crept in. Emperor Constantine made a wide departure from the usages 
and doctrines of the Primitive church, and enforced them with inquisitorial 
cruelty. The "Church of Rome" owes its origin to the enforced dictum of 
this first Christian ruler, who governed his subjects with a rod of iron. The 
Church of Rome adopted his arbitrary dictum, and resorted to all the tortures 
of the Inquisition to enforce its decrees; the very antipode of the teachings 
and practices of the Essenean or Primitive cburch. A man's life had not 
the value of a straw, if he dared to dissent from the rulings of the "Church 
Militant." Calvin was among the first to contend earnestly against the blood- 
thirsty octopus of his time, and soon had an immense following. To this 
heroic leader we trace the origin of the doctrine of "Foreordaination and Pre- 
destination." I say heroic, for it cost something to stand for the right and 
true in those days of rapine, murder and lust. 

John Calvin was of the stuff of which martyrs are made; and nobly he 
performed his mission. "O! but," says some caviling skeptic, ''Calvin burned 
Servetus at the stake." Well! admit the fact. Was not his one act of cruelty, 
such as it was, a very great advance over the spirit of the times in which 
he lived, when tyranny was the ruling sentiment, and bloodthirsty ferocious- 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 11 

ness was in the very air that was breathed by the masses? A spirit of 
Mobocracy everywhere prevailed, and it required a master spirit to subdue 
the storm and quell the tempest. If by the faggot argument, a thousand 
incorrigible rebels against just and righteous requirements were made to 
quail before the iron will of one stout heart; gain a victory over them, and 
rally them to a nobler strife; who is prepared to say that the sacrifice of one 
life did not justify the means, revolting as it may appear to us at this far 
distant period? 



ADVENT OF ARMENIUS 



In time Armenius, another great leader, came before the people as the 
champion of the "Free Will' doctrine. He is the father of the thousands 
that have lived since his time, as the opposers of the Calvinistic doctrines, 
that have been perverted and prostituted to selfish and ungodly purposes. 
Armenius in time was followed by the Luthers, Wesleys and other great 
leaders, each leading out a little farther from the arbitrary rule of the domi- 
nant Church of Rome. 

In time came Alexander Cambell, the keynote of whose mission was, 
back to the usages and doctrines of the Primitive church. He succeeded in 
leading out millions from the Egyptian bondage to creeds and dogmas; and 
through a forty years' pilgrimage in the desert, has led a mighty host to the 
borders of the "Promised Land" — myself among the number — of freedom 
from ecclesiastical bondage. Next in order, it is safe to assume, God will 
raise up a Joshua, that will take the chosen from the point where Alexander 
Cambell has left them, across the Jordan into the "Promised Land" flowing 
with milk and honey, figs and pomegranates and rich clusters of grapes, fig- 
uratively speaking. 

Campbell has fulfilled his mission and gone to his reward. Another 
leader will take up the work left unfinished by him, and carry it forward to 
its grand consummation — which means consigning to oblivion all man-made 
theologies, and the installation of the "Church Triumphant;" the church that 
is to be. The church that will stand imperishable and indestructible, for a 
religion based upon the two commandments, the core and kernel of both the 
law and the gospel, making them its creed and only creed. This church will 
not stop in its work of reform until Jews and Gentiles, Science and Religion, 
are joined together in wedlock, beyond the power of ecclesiastical nimrods 
or tribunals to divorce them. 

If coming events cast their shadows before, we can safely assume that 
the crucial age is near by. The social atmosphere is surcharged with storm. 
Men feel the sense of an impending something, they know not what. Ihere 
is a world wide uneasiness, an unsatisfied demand. Never since the song of 



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the angels over the "Babe in Bethlehem," was there such earnest prayer for 
the fulfillment of the prophecy of the "Church Triumphant." The church of 
deeds, versus the church of creeds. The infinite spirit of love, Divine, al- 
pervading, will not let these demands go unsatisfied; these desires of the heart 
go unanswered. 

The Materialism, greed and social injustice in the world are so firmly 
rooted that it will take a violent upheaval to reinstate the Golden Rule of 
conduct which the Messiah came to preach and exemplify. 

The priests mentioned assumed that in our search for just and equitable 
ground for a universal religion it would be well to study the religions of the 
Orient, from whence all known religions originated. They might with equal 
truth have assumed that in our search for common ground, where Religion 
and Science can meet and work in common, we must also study the science 
of the Orient at large, for it is now proven that the science of the Occident 
is at least 3,000 years in arrears of the Hindoo philosophy as to the origin 
of worlds, suns and systems. 

If Huxley's postulate be true, that the chief business of Science is to 
refute the errors of the preceding age, then this age is an exception, for the 
particular business of science of the passing hour is to revive the antique, 
rejected theories of China and India, deck them with names, and pass them 
off as new discoveries. In fact, among all contemporary abstract discoveries, 
the only one of indisputable truth, appears to be the discovery that there is 
nothing new under the sun; and that the only thing that scientists and theolo- 
gians know with certainty, is, that they know nothing with certainty. As a 
sequence, the scientific and religious thought of the age is carried back past 
Tyndall, Huxley, Darwin, Spencer and other materialistic authorities to the 
Mosaic and Messianic periods — the period when the truth was recognized 
— that there is a fountain of knowledge, greater than man's knowledge, and 
that fountain is open to all earnest enquirers, by inspiration, as in the 
olden time. 

Without stopping to consider the disputed and disputable question as 
to how or when inspiration ceased — if at all — let us take cognizance of the 
Bible truth from the lips of the greatest Revelator the world has known for 
the last 2,000 years, who said: "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the ends 
of the world." What is he ever present for? Is he a mere looker on, as 
passive as a Pagan idol, or is he sublimely active, a doer of the work? His 
very presence in our midst would prove an inspiration in and of itself; it 
would draw men unto him as in the olden time. 

Here allow me to enquire who has the better right to judge of the truth 
of a living inspiration and consequent revelation, those who affirm, or those 
who deny? 

I might cite many poets and prose writers who have spoken — by tongue 
and pen — on the affirmative side of the question, but the following will suf- 
fice, as they are samples of many others of equal authority. 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 13 

Longfellow wrote: 

"Inspiration is not sealed, 

Answering man's endeavor; 
Truth and right are still revealed, 

That which came to ancient sages, 
Greek, barbarian, Roman, Jew, 

Written in the heart's deep pages, 
Shine today, forever new". 
Writing for the encouragement of amateurs, Ella Wheeler Wilcox said: 
"Believe in yourself, and believe in the great source of all art, and appeal to 
it for inspiration and increased power. Remember that the greatest artists 
in every line the world has ever known were devout souls, filled with faith in 
the unseen. If you are proud of being an agnostic, and if you declare there 
is no life but this life, and no inspiration wherefrom you can draw, you may 
as well abandon your ideal of any permanent achievement in the world of art. 
You are cutting off your source of supply. The critics cannot make nor mar 
you, but you will destroy your own limitations of thought. But if your soul 
is attuned to the "music of the spheres," and your ears deaf to criticisms or 
praise, you shall be repaid by great inspirations, and you shall do better things 
as the years roll on than you have ever dreamed of." 

These words are pregnant with meaning, and apply to churches — many 
of which are in a condition of suspended animation, from the lack of the life- 
giving, inspiring power named the "Holy Spirit." 

Let us hie to the fountain of all inspiration and be infilled with new 
life — life more abundantly. 

O! the God inspired leaders. Through them God speaks to us. 
Whether it be to hold the plow, 

Or for the truth to boldly stand, 
We only know, somewhere, somehow, 

Will rise the one appointed hand; 
That out of all the world of men, 
Will come the chosen leader, then — 

Cities arise in barren spots, 

The desert blossoms as the rose, 
Because one man can build his thoughts 

Confidently, as on and on he goes; 
Because one man among them all 
Has felt, and heard, and knows his call. 

Whether to dream, to plan, to make, 

To forge ahead, or wisely lead, 
To bind together, or to break, 

The man arises whom we need 
The man comes, ready, on his day, 
In God's own time, in God's own way. 



14 

THE HUMAN BODY 



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fillment of th tbe Cos mical pi an H p „i Hlm ^ incidents 

subor^ate to t hlr et ^^ ° f a «*» f m^ 8 SeeS tbe *°al-the £ 
enildren shai° d h a a ] ^! M * ™ **. But if^Vof ^ A " ^ «" 
out for themselves Hp ■ *" t0 SnSWer the - own p I v ! the tT plan tb&t His 
workers, to overcome He™ *** ^ ^ aow 1*'^ tbem 
«lf reliance, andTttain ♦ them freed ^ that thl~> f° * the Wage 

into a knowIed^YowT ^ aud ^°w to the n > 7 ""* may leara 

hen- and now and t ° 6Stablish the kingdom tfL? 8 ' by ex ^ence 
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wrote the doom of * T ° f tFUStS and their f s t p r ^^ Land " 

torian tones IZ^lT/T " the Wa " S ° f * -£ S^r*^' aS be 
the Israelites of 2 f * ° Ppress * d to flee to a r>Z* 'I C6 ' and in ste *- 
Moses, to lead Ls ,h ,? EgyptIan bonda ^. He in ni "^ aS He did 

of Poets that 1 ,dren ° ut of bondage Hp n * P * grG&t leaders > Bke 

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, Every age has brought forth ^ Unkn ° WQ Writer »■ Pertinent- 

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despotism of the rhnr^? aQd sixtee °th centuries th* 
there arose a L^^l^ V™ - d ev" flsh f IJZ'TZ "* 
unbearable therp n ™ e profli gacy of the *W7 ! »T reform, 

threatened nvn, * Crom well. When the fo , ° Ct ° PUS bec ame 

dote for the ; e " n t OPO / 1StiC *"* tbe - -o «" a^TT °' ^^ Were 
revolution was nied ed f l , CCOmpan,ed a » d followed th e deb/', When &n anti ' 
would throw off th e Lr 6 ar ° SG & NapoJe ™- W^en tt T ° f ^ FrenCh 
ticles upon the n bUS ° f kin ^ s and priests tt»fh/ meriCai1 COlonies 

aspired for freedom /^ rGPUb,iC ' tbere arose a* Washl Z^^ itS ten ' 

act, and a race 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 15 

emancipated, there was a God-appointed Lincoln. 

"When the Grecian deities were crumbling, there arose a Socrates, and 
Plato, to tell of better and more inspiring things. 

"When Paganism was waning, there was a Paul to carry the glad tidings 
of the Brotherhood faith as taught and lived by the Gallilean Sage. When 
it was time to supplant the old Norse mythology, there was an Olaf to hold 
aloft the banner of righteousness. When the world needed a more spiritual 
interpretation of the Gospel of peace, good will to man, there arose a 
Swedenborg. 

"When the serfs of Russia determined to break the chains of their 
bondage to Czars, and their priestly clan, there is a Tolstoi already in the 
field, and the empire is already in the throes of revolt. 

"The exalted spirits, that ever rise up to emancipate us from impending 
perils, like those that now confront the wage workers of this continent, long 
called ''the land of the free and the home of the brave," rise up to refresh 
the world by revealing immortal springs in new social conditions, to be 
ushered in by the Millenium. 

The prospective good time coming, as is portrayed by Ella Wheeler 
Wilcox, cheers our hearts, lifts us up out of our pettishness and filth, our 
narrow creeds and outworn customs. The prospective relations gives us a 
glimpse of broader prospects, of higher duties, of deeper sympathies, of 
nobler destinies. It furnishes us, as it were, a peep hole view of the glorious 
sunlight falling on the hills and valleys, when the prayer of the ages, "Thy 
kingdom come" is answered, and the sweet prophecy of a Divine kingdom 
on earth is fulfilled. 



THE COMING MAN 



"Oh, not for the great departed, 

Who formed our country's laws; 
And not for the bravest hearted 

Who died in freedom's cause, 
And not for some living hero 

To whom all bend the knee, 
My muse would raise her song of praise — 

But for the man to be. 

For out of the strife which woman 

Is passing through today, 
A man divinely human 

Shall yet be born, I say — 
A man in whose pure spirit 

No dross of self shall lurk; 
A man who is strong to cope with wrong 

A man who is proud to work. 



16 THE HUMAN BODY 

A man with hope undaunted, 

A man with Godlike power, 
Shall come when he most is wanted, 

Shall come at the needed hour. 
He shall silence the din and clamor 

Of clan disputing clan, 
And toil's long fight with purse-proud might 

Shall triumph through this man. 

I know he's coming! coming! 

To help, to guide, to save; 

Though I hear no martial drumming, 

I see no flags that wave. 
But the great travail of woman, 

And the bold, free thought unfurled, 
Are heralds that say he's on the way — 

The coming man of the world. 

Mourn not for vanished ages, 

With their great, heroic men, 
Who dwell in history's pages, 

And live in the poet's pen. 
For the greatest times are before us, 

And the world is yet to see 
The noblest worth of this old earth, 

In the men that are to be. 



The author's dominant thought at this time is, that the food question 
is paramount to all others in its relations to man not only physically but 
mentally, morally and spiritually. The Mosaic and Messianic cults so 
regarded it. It is therefore safe to assume that the Bible is the only solid 
rock upon which all reforms must rest. Temperance reform with the rest. 



BIBLE PROHIBITORY OF FLESH FOODS. 

The Dictum of the Oriental Priests at the Congress of Religions. 

At the "Congress of Religions" convened in Chicago, a few years 
since, the American optimist, with silver-tongued eloquence patriotically 
talked of the great and expanding American republic, and portrayed pic- 
turesquely the golden dream of its future as the dominating power of the 
world, politically, socially and religiously. In short, the American patriot, 
with characteristic complacency, voiced the pulse beats of the nation, throb- 
bing along the lines of progress, with seven league strides toward the 
grander to-morrow, portrayed in roseate hues, and with a "Thus saith the 
Lord" emphasis. It was assumed the American flag was already recognized 
as the emblem of the mightiest national growth as well as the representative 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 17 

of the very highest civilization. Before this mighty world power, every 
kingdom and empire would eventually bend the knee, confessing the United 
States' to be the "Alpha and Omega" of all principalities and powers of the 
world. Such was the key note of the IDEALIST, voicing the sentiment of 
the "Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave." 

Farther, the American patriot urged the necessity of a universal relig- 
ion, a universal language; a universal republican form of government; and 
championed the fashioning of the grander future after models of the United 
States furnishing; claiming that America furnished an ideal basis for a 
model universal civilization, language, church, and religion. 

The Oriental priests were there deeply interested in the prospectus 
formulated by the representatives of "Western civilization." 

They were thoughtful, patriotic, but less optimistic than their brethren 
of the Occident. In perfect English, they eloquently pointed out the claims 
of the Orient to recognition, as also having models of civilization, worthy 
the consideration of the congress, and the idealists of all nations, notably 
Japan and India. They pointed out in unambiguous terms, the many dangers 
that menaced our republic which should be profoundly considered in the 
deliberations of a council representing all the nations of the earth, and 
their civilizations. 

They dwelt with vigor upon the necessity of a study of the different 
religions of the world, as to their origin, growth and decay. 

The point was emphasized that with the study of psychology, arch- 
eology and philology, a change will be sure to come that will consign old 
myths to oblivion and man will yet stand on a foundation built on the con- 
densed statement of both the law and the gospel, contained in the two com- 
mandments; recognized by all nations as the only foundation of a pure and 
undefiled religion, exemplified in the life and teachings of the Mesiah. 

The coming universal religion will champion the dignity and grandeur 
of man's nature, affirming that he is the highest, the grandest, the chief ex- 
cellence, the crowning glory of all creations. The man of the church of 
tomorrow, will say to his God: "Here am I, Thou all Light. Thou hast created 
me to walk upright before Thee; work in me and through me, to will and to 
do of Thy good pleasure, as Thou didst in, and through Him, who came pro- 
claiming Himself the 'Way, the Truth and the Light.' " 

The Orientals conceded that there were many points of excellence in 
the many institutions of our republic, secular and religious; but that the 
republic had a monopoly of blessings, they could not conscientiously admit. 

They contended that there were many counteracting influences that 
if not arrested in their demoralizing effects, unmistakeably pointed to a 
decadence of our nation's glory; in fact they more than hinted that the 
■''Star of Empire" on the Western continent had already reached the zenith 
of its glory, and was again eastward wending its way to Orient itself. 

Among the disquieting influences at work, that pointed to our nation's 
declension, physically, mentally and morally; was the vast amount of il- 



18 THE HUMAN BODY 

literacy which exists in all our large cities as shown in our census reports, 
which revealed the fact that out of our entire voting population, 2,288,000 
cannot read or write. 

Child labor was held up as another sign of our degeneracy. The 
Orientals also pointed out the fact that crime, murder, suicides, insanity, 
idiocy, etc., were increasing with fourfold greater rapidity than the increase 
of the population; that with only one exception — Russia — statistics show 
that the United States leads in crime. 

Further, it was assumed that all our boastings about our progress as a 
nation, it was very largely on the side of Mammon worship, not an institution 
that lifted the masses out of the mud and mire of sensualism. The priests 
more than hinted that the greater our prosperity as a world power, com- 
merically, the farther it wandered away from the teachings of the ideal char- 
acter, Christendom, professed to revere and follow, who continually warned 
his disciples to beware of greed — the besetting sin of the Western continent. 

Further, it was charged that in spiritual matters, we, as a nation, were 
hardly as far progressed as the fishermen, that followed the footsteps of the 
Nazerene, who had "no place to lay His head." 

The whole energies of life were spent in the accumulation of lands, 
houses, mortgages, bank and stocks of all kinds. 

What the nation really worshiped was gold, and in its worship it ful- 
filled the letter of the command, and loved it with all the heart, mind, soul, 
and strength; to the neglect of the second commandment: "Love Thy Neigh- 
bor as Thyself." 

While the universities and colleges were teaching scientific truths 
that are at least 3000 years in arrears of Hindo and Chinese cults, and making 
progress along the lines of philosophy, the missionaries eat beef and pork 
and drank wine, and other incompatables, which are the food of the Asiatic 
outcasts. So long as they do so, the high caste, intelligent people of India, 
will class them with the low class scavengers. 

Further, a representative Oriental stated that before the advent of our 
civilization, slaughter houses were abolished, and places where liquors were 
sold were closed, but since the advent of Western civilization, drunkenness, 
debauchery, pauperism and insanity had increased in the same ratio as on 
the Western continent. Further, the people of the Orient, can never be con- 
verted so long as the chief article of food of the missionaries is flesh. 

The packing houses of Chicago make a great feature of showing 
strangers through their plants. 

The Oriental priests were invited to visit the ponderous enterprise. 
SLAUGHTER HOUSES A CURSE AND A SHAME. 

After the visit, the Orientals on the floor of the "Congress of Religions", 
with the scenes of bloodshed and carnage, and the moral blight, and physical 
degeneracy of the employees, fresh in their memory looming up like a hor- 
rible nightmare, said: "Your great slaughter houses are a curse and a shame 
to your civilization, and if the scenes that have met our vision this day are 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 19 

an index of Western civilization and mirrors the religion of the Occident; 
the less we have of it the better." 

I cannot conceive a worse hell than the packing houses of Chicago. 
Where the treasure is there will the heart be also. The packers, with 
millstones around their necks, and balls of gold on their feet, preventing 
them from rising out of the "horrible pit and miry clay" of the stockyards 
and environments, will in time cry out as did an old time murderer, a slayer 
of innocent blood: "My punishment is greater than I can bear." They have 
sown to the wind and will reap the whirlwind. 

They each and all will come to realize the deep significence of the 
words: "With what measure ye have dealt it out to others, it shall be meted 
to you again." 

There is one hopeful outlook to the situation, and that is there are 
other "TRUSTS" in the country just as illegal and extortionate as the ''Beef 
Trust." 

The most hopeful sign of the times are, the trusts are involved in a 
battle ROYAL among themselves. And as every evil has within itself the 
elements of its own destruction, my suggestion is, give it rope and let it 
hang itself, as it surely will. 

In the meantime, while the battle is raging, let the people mass and 
resolve as Paul did of old: "As long as the world standeth, I will no more 
eat flesh, lest I hasten the downfall of the nation," which if it continues in 
the merciless grip of the Beef and Railroad Trusts, will insure the doom that 
has befallen many ancient nations. 

The Oriental priests, among other things, charged Christendom with 
not being as good as its book, which they assumed strictly prohibited flesh 
as food. Are they right? If so, then it is our duty to call an imperative halt 
on our carnivorant habits. 

I assume that the Orientals are right, but I shall leave my readers to 
judge for themselves on the evidence forth coming in the following pages: 



THE BIBLE MANDATORY. 

Impressed with the sincerity of the Oriental priests at the Congress, I 
determined to probe the matter to the bottom . I prepared myself 
to coldly investigate, and probably reject, the claims of the Mongolians. But 
alas! as the result of my search, my skepticism vanished, and all my doubts 
with it, and admiration of this Bible truism — old even in Zoroaster's time, 
and incorporated into the Persian hygienic truths, in vogue in Abraham's 
time, — has daily and hourly grown upon me. And how could it be otherwise, 
when I found myself in possession of scripture, overwhelming in its positive- 
ness and disinterestedness and what wonder after convincing myself — to a 
degree bordering on certainty, — that the 150,000 deaths annually in the United 
States from consumption was primarily caused by the violation of the Bible 
command, "Flesh shall man not eat," and that man's disobedience was visited 
with the same appalling results that followed the rebellious Israelites — who 



20 THE HUMAN BODY 

_ clamored for flesh foods in the wilderness, when they were abundantly sup- 
plied with manna. 

God gratified their longing for flesh, warning them, however, that 
it would be loathsome to them, — which proved to be a truth, for it resulted 
in the death of 120,000 in one day with catarrh, and 60,000 in the month. 

As a result of my investigation of the secret cabala of the ancients, 
with my blind eyes opened to the truth like the blind man whom Jesus re- 
stored to sight; I went on my way exclaiming whether these Oriental priests 
be pagans and sinners, I know not; but this much I do know, that whereas 
"I was blind, now I see." 

These few introductory remarks brings me to my subject. 

I assume that the Bible is mandatory in its decree, that "flesh with 
the life thereof, which is the blood thereof shall not be used as food," 
fearful penalties being visited on the violator. 

The scriptures from Genesis to Revelations confirm the postulate. 

Passing over the texts found in the first chapter of Genesis, 11 and 
12th verses, which I assume are pregnant with meaning to the student who is 
guided by the "Spirit of Truth," but obscure to one not so led, I turn to 
the 9th chapter of Genesis. In the 3rd and 4th verses I read instructions 
given to Noah, the deluvians, on their emerging from the Ark, namely: 
"Every thing that liveth, shall be meat for you, even to the green herb have 
I given you all things; but flesh, with the life thereof, which is the blood 
thereof, shall ye not eat." 

The qualification, "Flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood 
thereof," is given in my opinion undue significance, and is misleading. Blood 
is fluid bone, fluid muscle, fluid nerves, fluid cartilage, fluid brain; the 
fluid constitutents of every part of the body; every corpuscle of the body 
is a miniature human body, contains every constituent of it, and in the 
most exact proportions. Flesh foods are made up of blood consolidated, 
just as ice is consolidated water, I therefore fail to see any difference in 
the results whether animal tissue be taken in the form of muscle or blood. 
The effects are precisely the same whether taken as solid food or fluid. 
The command, "Flesh shall ye not eat," is prohibitory in either form, and 
to quibble over the question is to deal in technicalities having no bearing 
on the direful effects of flesheating, whether taken in the form of muscle 
or the fluids floating in the crimson tides. 

The reader will please notice that the Great Physiologist, of all physi- 
ologists, place the food question in the very front rank of all other ques- 
tions. In the opening chapter of Genesis instructions are given for the sus- 
tenance of the newly created man. ''Green herbs" figure conspicuously. 
Immediately after the flood, instructions are given to Noah and his sons 
as to their dietary in the language already quoted, which is a reiteration 
to those given to the ante-deluvians. But even this scripture, that states 
with a "Thus saith the Lord," emphasis, "Flesh shall man not eat," 
is too obscure to meet the exacting demands of the caviling skeptic. "That 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 21 

applies to the deluvians," is the cry, "and has no application to this age;" 
and yet this same class of deniers endorse the scripture, which affirms that 
the "Supreme Ruler is immutable, the same yesterday, today and forever." 
It is useless to try to convince this class of skeptics who are wedded to 
their idols and slaves to their stomach's arbitrary dictum, who " convinced 
against their will, are of the same opinion still." 

I next call the reader's attention to the scripture found in Numbers, 
11th chapter. There we find texts upon which the whole controversy hinges, 
and upon which mortals bank with unyielding tenacity, namely: "These are 
the beasts which ye shall eat. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and cheweth 
the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat." 

The Hebrews of this and preceding ages give this scripture a literal 
meaning, and eat of the flesh of oxen, calves and sheep, because they are 
"cloven-footed, and chew the cud," but swine, though it be cloven-footed, 
cheweth not the cud, and is therefore not permissible as food. 

The loyal Jews to this day eat no swine's flesh, and they have their 
reward in being immune from many diseases to which pork eaters are sub- 
ject, namely: consumption, cancer, cholera and many other congenital dis- 
eases to which flesh eaters are subject. 

Now I assume, without fear of successful contradiction, that the in- 
structions found in the 11th chapter of Numbers, has reference to the use 
of flesh of animals, named "clean," only on sacrificial occasions, feast days, 
passovers, etc. That there were disloyal Jews who rebelled against the 
just and righteous hygienic requirements of the "Great I Am," and eat to 
gluttony and drank to drunkenness, there is evidence to prove. 

There is no doubt that while the Hebrews were in Egyptian bondage, 
they were compelled to eat flesh. The radical change from such a proteid 
diet to that of manna, caused a gastric uneasiness, which can be understood 
only by those who have had the experience. 



NO PUNCTUATION IN THE SCRIPTURES. 

It will be well to remember that up to the 14th century, the scriptures 
were not divided into chapters and verses as now. They were written with 
consonants only, without any punctuation whatever. Hence the rendering 
of much of the scripture as a sequence has been, by repeated revisions and 
interpolations made obscure by persons making no claim to inspiration or 
a close walk with God. Revising councils were often dominated arbitrarily, 
by kings, queens and emperors, who instructed their subjects, without any 
provisos, to bring conspicuously to the front the assumed God ordained right 
of kings, queens and other high potentates to rule over their subjects, 
"peaceably," if they could, forcibly if they must. The tortures of the inquis- 
ition were resorted to compel obedience to the dictum of popes, cardinals, etc. 

Notwithstanding the oft repeated burning of libraries like the Alexan- 
drian, and still oftener revisions of scriptures by potentates to selfish and 
ungodly purposes, enough remains of the original to conclusively show that 



22 THE HUMAN BODY 

the loyal Jews were steadfast in their fidelity to the requirements of the hy- 
gienic laws as given to their forefathers. 

In the elucidation of my theme, I ask the reader's attention, first to 
events transpiring in a period of Jewish history called the "Great Crisis," 
the times that tried men's souls because of the merciless persecutions of 
the loyal Jews by King Antiochus Epiphenes, who determined to root out 
Jewish customs and usages in their temple worship of Jehovah, and substi- 
tute sacrifices of the Greek god, Zeus, or Deus. 

Swine's flesh was prohibited as unclean, and therefore prohibited as 
food or sacrifice. The tyrant king mentioned, made that a test, whereby 
all loyal Jehovians were tried. If any refused to sacrifice swine and sprinkle 
their blood on the alter, they were adjudged disloyal to the Greek god, and 
that meant death by the most excruciating tortures. I will cite one case of 
such martyrdom, occuring about 170 years B. C, from its character, thousands 
of others can be judged. 

From the 6th chapter of the 1st Book of Maccabees we glean strong 
presumptive, if not positive evidence that flesh of animals that "chewed 
the cud and split in the hoof," were permissible only as sacrifices. On 
feast days only, which did not take place oftener than once a month, might 
be likened to our communion service. It is fair therefore to assume no 
flesh was eaten for at least thirty days of each calendar month, even on 
sacrificial occasions. 

In the days of which Nehemiah wrote, times full of tragic events in 
Jewish history, after their return from the Babylonish captivity, we read 
of Eleazer, "one of the principal scribes, an aged man and a well favored 
countenance, who was constrained to open his mouth and eat swines' flesh. 
But he choosing rather to die gloriously, than to live stained by such abom- 
inations, spit it forth and came of his own accord to the torment; as it be- 
hoved them to come that are resolute to stand against such things as are 
not lawful, for love of life, to be tasted. But they that had charge of the 
wicked feast, for the old acquaintance they had with the man, taking him 
aside, besought him to bring flesh of his own provision, such as was lawful 
for him to use in sacrifice, that is, flesh of animals "split in the hoof and 
that chewed the cud." and make as if he did eat of the swine's flesh taken 
from the sacrifice, that in so doing he might be delivered from death and 
in his old fellowship with them find favor." 

But he, Eleazer, began to consider discreetly the excellency of his an- 
cient years, and the honor of his gray head, whereunto he was come, and 
his most honest education from a child, on the forefathers' holy dietetic laws, 
made and given by God. Therefore he answered accordingly and willed 
them straightway to send him to his grave. "For," said he, "it becometh 
not our age to dissemble," whereby many young persons might think that 
Eleazer being fourscore years and ten, were now gone to a strange religion; 
and so they through my hypocracy, and a desire to live a moment longer, 
should be deceived by me, and I get a stain to my old age and make it 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 23 

abominable. For though for the present time I should be delivered from the 
punishment of men; yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty, neither 
alive nor dead. Wherefore now, manfully changing this life, I will show 
myself such an one as my age requireth, and leave a notable example to such 
as be young, to die willingly and courageously for the honorable and holy 
laws." And when he had said these words immediately he went to his death 
by scourging. And when he was thus being put to death, he groaned and 
said: "It is manifest unto the Lord, that hath the holy knowledge, that 
whereas I might have been delivered from death, by dissembling, (partaking 
of the flesh of animals "split in the hoof, that chewed the cud,") I now endure 
sore pains in my body being beaten; but in soul am well content to suffer 
these things." And thus the man, Eleazer, died leaving his death for an ex- 
ample of noble courage, and a memorial virtue, not only to the YOUNG 
men, but unto all his nation; and it might be added consistently to all 
Christendom. 

I shall have occasion to refer to the Jews' fidelity to the dietetic laws 
further on, showing beyond a peradventure that Eleazer's example was not 
barren of the desired result. I shall show from the record that hundreds 
and thousands followed his example and suffered death by the most excru- 
ciating tortures at the hands of the tyrant king, rather than violate the diet- 
etic laws given by God to the ante-deluvians and reiterated to the post-deluv 
ians, recorded in the 9th chapter of Genesis. 



MOSES OVERWHELMED WITH SORROW. 

Now we shall go back to the time of Moses, and I offer in evidence of 
the truth of my hypothetical novelty, facts from Jewish wilderness history 
found in Book of Numbers, which reads: ''And the mixed multitudes fell 
a lusting, and the children of Israel wept, and said, 'who shall give us flesh 
to eat? We remember the flesh which we did eat freely in Egypt, but now 
our soul is dried away, there is nothing besides this manna before our 
eyes." 

When Moses heard this murmuring he said to the Lord, "Wherefore 
hast thou thus afflicted thy servant? Why layest thou this burden upon me? 
Whence should I have flesh to give all this people? They weep unto me 
saying, 'give us flesh to eat.' I'm not able to bear all this people alone, 
because it is too heavy for me; and if thou deal thus with me, kill me I pray 
thee out of hand and let me not see my wretchedness." 

I wonder how the champions of traditional theology harmonize their 
hypothesis, which claims that Moses amended or annulled that command, 
permitted them to eat of the flesh of animals ''split in the hoof and that 
chewed the cud?" Why did Moses go to the Lord and pray him to kill him 
»ut of hand rather than permit him to see the wretchedness of the children 
of Israel returning to the fleshpots; if he had given them permission to use the 
flesh of oxen, sheep and calves as a daily diet? I cannot comprehend how 



24 THE HUMAN BODY 

any man, however wise or dull of comprehension, as a Bible student, can 
harmonize the two opposing statements. 

Let us follow out this prayer of Moses and further talk with the 
Lord and note the outcome. 

And the Lord said unto Moses, "Say unto this people ye shall have 
flesh to eat; a Whole month shall ye eat it until it comes out of your nostrila 
and it be loathsome to you, because ye said, 'Why came we forth out of 
Egypt." " 



MOSES REJOINDER. 

Moses said: "The people are six hundred thousand footmen, and thou 
hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat it a whole month. Shall 
the flocks and the herds be slain for them or shall the .fish of the sea be 
gathered together to suffice them?" And the Lord said unto Moses rebuk- 
ingly, "Is the Lord's hand shortened?" And there went forth a wind and 
brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a 
day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, and as it 
were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. 

And the people stood up all that day and all that night and gathered 
quails. And while they were yet between their teeth, the people were 
smitten with a very great plague, and there they buried the people that 
lusted." 

Paul says that a hundred and twenty thousand died in one day, and 
I've somewhere read that 60,000 died in the month. 

Now if Moses amended the dietetic law, as given to Noah, why all 
this beating about the bush, if he had repealed, amended or annulled the 
law prohibiting the use of flesh as food? The rebels clamored for flesh 
foods without designating any particular kind. Animals "split in the hoof 
and that chewed the cud," would have been eaten with the same avidity as 
were the quails and probably with the same direful results. 

The fact that the Lord went before the rebels as a "pillar of cloud 
by day and a pillar of fire by night," and rained down manna, "angels' food," 
as David termed it, is to me sufficient evidence that the original diet law 
as given to Noah, "Flesh shall man not eat," was still binding and to be 
obeyed. 

The spies sent out by Moses to view the "Promised Land" in their re- 
port did not even hint that the land abounded with wild fowl or animals 
"split in the hoof and that chewed the cud," but they affirmed the land was 
goodly, one flowing with milk and honey, and as evidence of the productive- 
ness of the soil they brought figs and pomegranates and rich clusters of 
grapes." 

It is safe to conclude that Moses made no change in the immutable 
law formulated in omnipotent wisdom and executed by the power that is 
the same yesterday, today and forever, "in whom there is no variableness 
nor shadow of a turning." For the sake of the argument, I will concede that 



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Moses gave permission to use flesh as food, was he the supreme lawmaking 
power? Moses was only a man, and therefore a subordinate to the lawgiver 
of Sinai. 

The good book says, "Ye ought to obey God rather than man." I 
therefore fall back on the original commandment and obey God rather than 
Moses, if there is any conflict between them, which if any exists I have 
utterly failed after diligent and prayerful search to discover. 

His pleadings with the Lord not to let him see the Israelites return 
to the fleshpots, which he designated as defiling and those who rebelled against 
the manna, as lusters, negatives the assumption. The general rendering 
of the texts, applicable only to sacrificial occasions, has made the original 
law of none effect by tradition and usage, and the direful effects are beyond 
a high raised angel's powers to compute. 



FURTHER PROOF THAT USE OF FLESH WAS LIMITED. 

In first Samuel, 15th chapter, we find a grewsome history of Saul, 
the first king of Israel. The chapter reads in part as follows: Samuel 
said unto Saul, "Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; go and smite the Amalekites, 
and utterly destroy them." And Saul smote the Amalakites, took Agag, 
the king, prisoner and utterly destroyed all the people. But he spared 
the best of the sheep and the oxen and the lambs. 

Then came the word of the Lord to Samuel saying, "It repenteth me that 
I have set up Saul to be king, for he hath not performed my command- 
ments." 

Samuel came to Saul and Saul said, "I have performed the com- 
mandment of the Lord." 

"What meaneth the bleating of the sheep and the lowing of the cattle 
I hear in mine ears?" asked Samuel. 

Mark Saul's answer "The people spared the best of the sheep and oxen 
to sacrifice unto the Lord; the rest we have utterly destroyed." 

And Samuel said, "Wherefore didst thou fly upon the spoils, and didst 
evil in the sight of the Lord?" 

And Saul answered, "Yea, I have utterly destroyed the Amalikites, 
but the people flew upon the spoils, and took the sheep and oxen to sacri- 
fice unto the Lord thy God, in Gilgal." 

And Samuel said, ''Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings 
and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold to obey is better 
than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. Because thou hast 
rejected the word of the Lord, and didst fall upon the spoils, and didst eat 
of the flesh on the ground dripping with blood — as a lion or tiger would eat 
it — and not on an altar in sacrifice, in decorum, the Lord hath rejected thee 
from being king." 

And Saul answered, "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the com- 
mandant of the Lord." How? The law required that all sacrifices should 
be made upon an altar. This Saul neglected to build until after the sin had 



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been committed. Then he was reminded of his neglect and "commanded 
that a great stone be brought and an altar be erected thereon." Then he 
commanded every man to bring his sheep and calves and offer a burnt 
offering. But that was a "sin of omission" that could not be lightly regard- 
ed, and his neglect cost him his throne. 

Why did he thus neglect the duty required at his hands? Saul's 
answer was, "Because I feared the people, who when hungry and thirsty, 
flew upon the spoils and did eat until they were crazy drunk with hot 
blood." But Samuel turned a deaf ear to Saul's excuses and said, "The Lord 
God will not lie or repent, for He is not a man that should repent." Wherein 
was Saul's crime? Surely not in failing to slaughter the Amalekites, for 
that he had done. He had utterly destroyed the men, women and children. 

The act of disobedience was centered by Samuel to falling upon the 
sheep, oxen and calves and eating them dripping with blood, a violation of 
the commandant given to the post-deluvians, and reiterated through Moses, 
namely, "Flesh, with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall man 
not eat." 



THE PSALMIST THROWS LIGHT ON THE UNDERLYING FACTORS OF 

SAUL'S NEGLECT— SHOWS THE POTENCY OF EVIL ANGELS. 

David states that evil angels obsessed Saul often, and that on occasion 
Saul sent for him who came with his harp and for the time being released 
the king from their thraldom. 

David is not silent on the influence of these evil angels in stirring up 
rebellion among the Israelites while in the wilderness, inspiring them to cry 
out for flesh foods, with his comments thereon shows underlying causes 
of the rebellion that are not often defined, namely: evil angels that have 
always figured conspicuously as factors in a vain endeavor to thwart the 
benevolent purposes of the Almighty. They often come disguised as "Angels 
of Light," and can assume any name and any disguise to deceive mortals. 
Even Abraham was deceived by an evil angel, who came assuming to be 
an angel of the Lord, instructing him to restore a ceremonial worship in 
the form of burnt offerings, etc. When enquired of, as to what was required 
for the offering the evil angel answered, "Thy son, Isaac," his only son. 
Abraham's suspicions were aroused and he answered the angel, "It is written 
in the law, "Thou shalt not kill." Seeing that Abraham was on the alert 
and could not be tempted to murder, he departed. Abraham virtually said 
to the tempter, "Get thee behind me, Satan," and to be obeyed. 

In the Mosaic dispensation there existed laws making it a misdemean- 
or to consult with familiar spirits, under severe penalties. But in violation 
of that law, Saul sought the "Witch of Endor," that he might consult with 
the spirit of Samuel. You are all acquainted with the history. Saul had to 
pledge immunity from punishment, ere the woman would consent to call up 
the spirit of Samuel. 

Why did not Saul seek counsel of the Lord God, rather than take 



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the chances of being deceived by an evil angel, assuming to be Samuel. 
Echo, answers why? 

In this connection I will dwell a moment on David's inspiration, relat- 
ing to the wilderness rebellion, and as Saul was often obsessed by evil 
angels, which only the harp of David could quiet and render abortive, it is 
fair to assume they played an important part in causing Saul to prove 
recreant to the duty imposed upon him. The 78th psalm is pregnant with 
meaning to the searcher after truth and light, on the character of the forces 
arrayed against Jehovah's benevolent purposes towards His chosen. 



SPEAKING OF THE REBELS IN THE WILDERNESS, DAVID WROTE: 

"And they, the Israelites inspired by the evil angels, tempted God by 
asking flesh for their lust. Therefore the Lord heard this and his fire was 
kindled against them. Why? Because they believed not God, though He 
had opened the doors of heaven and rained down manna upon them to eat. 
They did eat angels' food. He sent them that to their full." 

He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens; He rained upon them 
as dust feathered fowl, (quails), like the sands of the sea. So they did eat 
and were well filled, for God gave them of their desire. They were not 
estranged from their lust. But while the flesh was yet in their mouths, 
the evil angels came among them, and they, (the evil angels', slew the fattest 
of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. Note that language, 
the "evil angels," were the slayers and not the merciful God, as we have 
been taught. 

"For all this they sinned still. When the evil angels slew them they 
sought God, and they returned and inquired after their God. Never- 
the less they did flatter him with their mouths, and they lied unto him with 
their tongues." For their hearts were not right with God, neither were they 
steadfast in his covenants. But he being full of compassion, forgave their 
iniquity, and destroyed them not wholly, for many a time he remembered 
that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away. "How oft they grieved 
him in the wilderness; yea! they turned back and tempted him. 
What part did the evil angels enact in all this waywardness, is a question 
for us to consider. Evil angels have always abounded, and this age is no 
exception. Beware of them. They go about like a roaring lion, seeking 
whom they may devour. 

Paul in the 10th chapter of First Corinthians, speaking of the 
rebelious Jews in the wilderness, writes: "Moreover, brethren, I would not 
have you ignorant, how that our fathers were under the cloud and passed 
through the sea; and they did eat the same SPIRITUAL food (manna). But 
with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in 
the wilderness, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 

"Neither murmur ye for flesh as they also murmured, and were de- 
stroyed of the destroyer (evil angels)." 

Now all these things happened for our example, and were written 



28 THE HUMAN BODY 

for our admonition to the intent that we should not lust after flesh as they 
also lusted, and in so doing send out invitation cards to angels to come 
and take up their abode with the disobedient, Paul might have added. 
Therefore if ye eat flesh, and the evil angels pounce down upon you like 
vultures to a carcass, take heed lest ye fall a victim to their lust. 

The reader is referred to a commentary on Saul's conduct on the 
closing pages of Bible Proofs. 



THE LESSON OF DANIEL'S REFUSAL TO PARTAKE OF THE KING'S 

MEAT. 

The reader knows the history of Daniel and his stalwart companions, 
who resolved to die in the fiery furnace or the lions' den, rather than violate 
the dietetic laws of their forefathers. 

They were favorites in the king's household, although virtually slaves, 
subject to the whims and caprices of the tyrant king. 

The king appointed unto all his retinue their daily portion of flesh and 
wine. 

But Daniel, like Eleazer, purposed that he would not defile himself 
with the king's meat, nor with the wine of his appointing. Therefore he 
requested of the "Prince of the Eunuchs, that he might not defile himself." 

And the prince said unto Daniel: "I fear my lord the king, who hath 
appointed your meat and drink, and to disobey is to endanger my head to 
the king." 

Then said Daniel, ''Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days, and 
give us pulse to eat and water to drink." 

So the prince consented and proved them ten days — with what result? 
At the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter than 
all the habitues of the king's household who did eat of the king's meat, 
and drink of his wine. 

Thus Melzer took away the flesh foods and the wine, and gave Daniel 
and his companions pulse and water. 

Now as the result of their steadfastness to the dietetic laws of their 
forefathers, ''God gave them knowledge in all learning and skill and wisdom." 
Finally when the time came for the king to prove them, he communed with 
them, and among them of his household was none found like Daniel and his 
three companions. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, the king 
found them ten times better than all the astrologers and magicians of his 
realm. And Daniel continued the king's favorite until the first year of 
Cyrus the King's reign. 

Daniel was a vegetarian. Lesson: — It pays to obey the mandates of 
King Immanuel, who hath appointed our meat and drink, of which flesh 
foods form no part. 

Ladies, you who desire to be the possessors of countenances as fair 
as the lily, tinged with the bloom of the peach, and to enhance your beauty 
of face and form with much wisdom; to become brilliant conversationalists, 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 29 

follow Daniel's example and you and your children after you will become a 
glory to your Creator and a joy in your own lives. The glory of God con- 
sists in the perfection of His works, of which man is the crowning glory. 



FLESH FOODS AND WINE PROHIBITED TO PROSPECTIVE MOTHER- 
HOOD. 

I next ask the reader's attention to a theme of vital import to all 
interested in the proper generation of the race. 

I refer to Samson's eventful history. An angel of the Lord came 
to Menoah's wife, and told her she should bear a child in her old age, on 
condition that during the pre-natal period she drank no wine nor ate any 
unclean food, meaning flesh foods. 

Read the history. Obedience to the instructions of the angel, which 
were in harmony with the command of Jehovah to Noah, and taught in all 
the synagogues through all intervening periods, including the Messianic 
and Apostolic, gave to the world a Samson, reputed to be the strongest man 
of whom history makes mention. 

Moral: — Use no flesh foods or intoxicating drinks, ye prospective 
mothers, if you would have children born and reared Samsons in strength; 
Daniels in clearness k and vigor of mental perception; Peter speaking as 
with tongues of fire, or numbered among those to whom Jesus referred 
when He said to His disciples: "Greater works than these shall ye do, be- 
cause I go to my Father." 



AN ANGEL CAME TO SARAH, WIFE OF ABRAHAM, ON THE SAME 

ERRAND. 

An angel came to Sarah, wife of Abraham, on the same errand as to 
Menoah's wife, and it is fair to assume gave the same instructions as to 
her regime during the pre-natal period. It does not require a great stretch 
of credulity on my part to believe that the angel's visit to Sarah was just as 
important in its results, to the birth of the Messiah, as the angel's visit 
to Mary the Mother of Jesus, or to Elizabeth the mother of John the Baptist. 
They were all links in the great chain of causation, and gave the world the 
promised Messiah, who was to be of the seed of Abraham. 

The instructions given to Menoah's wife and her progenitors were no 
doubt embodied in the text found in Isaiah, 37th and 30th, in vogue at the 
time; reading: ''Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the 
second year that which springeth from the same; and in the third year, sow 
ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat of the fruit thereof." 

When Esau traded his birthright, he did not trade it for a beefsteak, 
but for a mess of pottage. 



TRAGIC EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS AFTER THEIR 
RETURN FROM THE BABYLONISH CAPTIVITY. 

At the commencement of my thesis I informed my readers that in the 



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presentation of the Bible evidence on the subject under consideration, I 
should leave a further history of the Jews during the period known as the 
"Great Persecution," as found in the closing books of the Old Bible, for 
further comment; towards the last, or up to within 127 years B. C. Then 
King Antiochus Epiphenes became king of Syria. 

He determined not only on the complete subjugation of Palestine, 
but on rooting out Jewish faith and practices, and making the Greek cult 
permanent throughout his empire. 

He captured Jerusalem, and proceeded to desecrate the sacred altars. 
Swine's flesh was offered in sacrifice, and their blood sprinkled on the 
altar of the holy place dedicated to the worship of the most high God. 
Swine, under the Jewish law, were prohibited in sacrifice because they 
were unclean and did not "chew the cud." 

Strictly adhering to the requirements of the law as given to their 
forefathers, the loyal Jews refused to obey the king's order, as did Eleazer. 

Enraged, the king determined that the Jewish priests themselves 
should take part in the desecration of their temple, by butchering swine 
and offering them in sacrifice to the false god Zeus or Deus in the temple. 
All who refused to participate in the slaughter and sprinkle the altar with the 
blood thereof were deemed traitors to the Greek god, and death by the most 
excruciating tortures was the penalty. 

I have already given the history of Eleazor, a priest and scribe, who 
suffered martyrdom because he determined to remain loyal to the dietetic 
laws of his progenitors. 

I will now ask the reader's attention to the same heroic spirit mani- 
fested by seven brothers and their mother who suffered cruel deaths all in 
one day, because they would not eat swine's flesh in sacrifice as commanded 
by the king. 

This history is found in the seventh chapter of Maccabees, and pre- 
sents a true picture of the martyrdom of thousands of loyal Jews, who 
refused to participate in the sacrifices to a false god. The chapter reads: 
"It came to pass also that seven brethren with their mother were taken 
and compelled by the king (Antiochus Epiphenes) to taste of swine's flesh 
from off the altar dedicated to Zeus, and were tormented with scourges 
and whips on their refusal. But one of them spake first, said this: 'What 
wouldst thou ask or learn of us? We are ready to die, rather than trans- 
gress the laws of our fathers.' 

"Then the king, being in a rage, commanded pans and cauldrons to 
be made hot, which forthwith heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue 
of him that spake first, and to cut off the utmost parts of his body, the 
rest of his brethren and mother compelled to look on. 

"Now when he was thus maimed in all his members, the king com- 
manded him, while yet alive, to be brought to the fire, and be fried in the 
pan. But the brethern exhorted one another, with the mother, to die man- 



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fully in defense of the holy dietetic laws; saying, 'The Lord God looketh 
upon us, and in truth hath comfort in us.' 

"So when the first was dead in this manner, they brought the second 
to make him a mocking stock; and when they had pulled off the skin of 
his head (scalped him) they asked him: 'Wilt thou eat of flesh before thou 
be punished throughout every member of thy body, even as thy brethren?' 

"But he answered, in Hebrew, 'No!' Whereupon he received the next 
torment in order as the former did. And when he was at his last gasp he 
said to the king: 'Thou like a fiery beast takest us out of this present life, 
but the King of the World shall raise us up, who have died in defense of 
His holy laws, unto everlasting life.' 

After him was a third made a mocking stock; and When he was re- 
quired to put out his tongue, and that right soon, holding forth his right 
hand for amputation manfully, and said courageously: 'These I despise; 
I had them from God, and from Him I hope to receive them again.' 

Insomuch that the king, and they that were with him, marvelled at 
the young man's courage, for that he had nothing regarded the pains and 
torment. Now when this man was dead also, they tormented and mangled 
the fourth in like manner. So when he was ready to die, he said thus: 
'It is good, being put to death by men, to look for hope from God to b« 
raised up again by Him; as for thee, king, thou shalt have no resurrection 
to life.' 

"Afterwards they brought the fifth also, and mangled him. Then 
looked he unto the king, and said: 'Thou hast power over men; thou art cor- 
ruptable; thou doest what thou wilt; yet think not that our nation is forsaken 
of God, but abide awhile, and behold His great power, and how He will 
torment thee and thy seed.' 

"After him they brought the sixth, who being ready to die, said: 
'Be not deceived without cause; for we suffer these things for ourselves; 
therefore marvelous things are done unto us.' But think not thou, that 
takest thy hand to strive against God, that thou shalt escape unpunished.' 

"But the mother was marvelous above all, and worthy of honorable 
mention, for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one 
day, she bore it with good courage, because of the hope she had in the 
Lord. Yea, she exhorted every one of them, in her own language, filled with 
courageous spirit; and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly 
stomach, she said unto them: I neither gave one of you life nor breath, 
neither was it I that formed the members of any one of you; but doubtless 
the Creator who formed the generations of man, and found out the begin- 
ning of all things, will also of his own mercy give you breath and life agaia, 
as ye now regard not your own selves, for His laws' sake.' 

"Now King Ahtiochus, thinking himself despised, and suspecting the 
mother's speech to be reproachful, whilst the youngest was yet alive, did 
not only exhort him with words, but also assured him by oaths, that he 
would make him both a rich and happy man, if he would turn from the laws 



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of his fathers; and that also he would take him for his friend and trugt 
him with affairs." He no doubt made the young man the same proposition 
that was made to Eleazor, to bring flesh of his own appointing, that is, 
flesh of animals "split in the hoof and that chewed the cud", such as was 
lawful for him in sacrifice, and make as if he did eat of the swine's flesh 
of the king's appointing. In other words, play the hypocrite and dissemble. 

But when the young man would in no wise hearken unto him, the 
king called the mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the young 
man to save his life. 

And when he had exhorted her with many words, she promised she 
would counsel her son, but she bowed herself towards him, laughing the 
cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country tongue, (Hebrew), in this manner: 
"O, my son! have pity upon me. I beseech thee, my son! look upon the 
heaven and the earth, and all that therein is, and consider that God made 
them of things which were not; and so were mankind made, I likewise. 
Fear not this tormentor, but being worthy of thy brethren, take thy death, 
that I may receive thee again in mercy with thy brethren." 

While she was yet speaking, the young man said: "What wait ye for? 
I will not obey the king's commandment, but I will obey the commandment 
of the law that was given unto our fathers by Moses." 

"And thou, who hast been the author of all mischief against the 
Hebrews, shalt not escape the hands of God. 

"Thou, O! godless man, and of all the most wicked, be not lifted up, 
nor puffed up with uncertain hopes, lifting up thy hands against the 
servants of God, who seeth all things." 

"For our brethren, who have suffered a short pain, are now dead 
under God's covenant of everlasting life; but thou, through the judgment 
of God, shall receive just punishment for thy pride. But I, as my brethren, 
offer up my body and life for the laws of our fathers, and that thou by 
torments and plagues mayest confess, that He alone is God." 

Then the king, being in a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, 
and took it grievously that he was thus mocked. 

So this man died undefiled, and put his whole trust in the Lord. 

Last of all, after the seven sons, the mother died, mangled like 
her sons. 

Let this be enough to have spoken concerning the idolatrous feasts, 
and the extreme tortures." 

In closing the Old Testament evidence, (far from exhausted), permit 
me to say, that in my opinion, any lawyer capable of analyzing evidence, 
and weaving the Bible links in the chain of historical events, as I have 
arranged them, and present them to a jury of twelve unbiased men com- 
petent to judge, would feel an assurance, born of confidence, that a unani- 
mous verdict in favor of the hypothesis, that the Bible from cover to cover 
is mandatory in its prohibition of flesh as food, and that the use of flesh 
of animals "split in the hoof and that cheweth the cud" was restricted to 



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sacrificial occasions, to feast days and those not occurring more than once 
a month; probably less, no more. 

The Old Testament closes its Revelations with a warning against 
adding anything or taking from the words of the book, under severe penalty 
for disobedience. 

I would like to be informed why the books of the Apochrapha have 
been discarded in the modern editions of the Bible. 

In Deuteronomy, 4th chapter and 2nd verse, it is written: Ye shall 
not add unto the words which I command; neither shall ye diminish aught 
from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God, which 
I command you. Now, my reader, I leave you to judge whether anything 
has been added to or diminished from the DIETETIC law as given to the ante- 
deluvians, and reiterated to the post-deluvians after him; and if in your 
judgment such alterations have been made, or the law has been allowed, 
by neglect, to virtually become a dead letter, then it is your duty to devise 
ways and means to reinstate the law, for which hundreds and thousands, 
like Eleazer and the mother and her seven sons, and thousands of others 
worthy of honorable mention, died rather than violate. Ponder upon this 
subject prayerfully, with the earnest thought the subject demands, and 
if fully persuaded that my assumptions rest upon some firmer basis than 
mere conjecture, then set about the work of correcting the errors that have 
crept into the Bible, as speedily as is consistent with the Divine will, that it 
may be well with you and your posterity forever. 



NEW TESTAMENT EVIDENCE 

That the Law Prohibiting Flesh as Food Was Binding all Through the 

Messianic and Apostolic Periods. 

James M. Stiffier, Professor of New Testament Exegesis in Crozier 
Theological Seminary, in a discourse on the ''Unity of the Bible," affirmed 
that the Old and New Testaments are two volumes of one and the same 
book; that the adjective "Old" used in connection with the "New" is not 
authoritative, and is misleading. 

"The old lies hid in the new, and the new lies hid in the old," is the 
core and kernel of the article. 

Now if the New Testament is but a continuation of the Old, an out- 
growth, the law and the gospel one — and there is no anti-thesis, no contra- 
diction in essentials — they are part of one great whole, and must stand or 
fall together; then it follows that the command given to the Ante and Post 
Deluvians, "Flesh shall man not eat," was still binding all through the 
Messianic and Apostolic ages — as it was up to the period when the Old 
Testament history closed. 

We find on a careful study of the Old Testament history, which 
Malachi gives up to 178 years B. C, that a strict fidelity to the commandment 
was the ruling sentiment of the loyal Jews up to the period named; thousands 
suffering martyrdom rather than disobey. Then we have just grounds for 



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assuming that the old law was recognized as of binding force in the Mes- 
sianic and Apostolic ages. And so we find it up to the time the New 
Testament closes with Revelations, and in the closing chapter of the last 
book of the New Testament, we are warned under severe penalty, not to add 
to anything written in the book; in the words, "If any man shall take away 
from the words that are written in this book, God shall take away his part 
out of the book of life, and from things which are written in this book." 

Have revising committees added to or taken from the words of the 
"Book of Life," or so obscured the plain text of scripture as to make much 
of it a "dead letter," or of none effect by traditions? I leave you to judge. 
After the evidence I shall present to you, it is yours to ponder over and 
render your verdict. 

I think you will agree with me that the Christ is the central figure 
of the New Testament; all others, great, noble, heroic as they were in 
their fidelity to the truth, pale before the glories of the Messiah. It may 
be truly said, there was the distance of infinity between the two. 

Jesus lived His religion. In His personality; his precepts are to be 
studied as nowhere else. When on Sinai, at the giving of the law, the 
power that "worked in him, and through him to will and to do of his good 
pleasure" whom the "Sent of God" named "My Father in heaven," this 
power that came down upon the man in the Jordan, was named at the 
giving of the law, "The chief among ten thousand and the one altogether 
lovely." 

Much attention is given to the geography of the country where Jesus 
lived; to the customs to which he so often refers; and the state of society 
with which he was surrounded. 

It is being conceded, both by Jews and Gentiles, that he was the geatest 
ideal character of which history — for the last 2,000 years at least — makes 
mention; as a sequence the antecedents of this highest, grandest, 
chief-excellence, the crowning glory of all the Creator's creations, is a theme 
of absorbing interest to the student of the science of Eugencics. What 
were his antecedents, which have been traced back to Abraham, the "father 
of the faithful." What were his pre-natal environments? What were the 
hygienic precepts and practices of the synagogue under which he was raised; 
what were the dietetics of himself and progenitors for many generations? 
Why did he fast 40 days in the wilderness? Why did he so often seek the 
seclusion of the mountains for prayer and communion with the fountain 
head of all knowledge, wisdom, love, etc.? 

All these details and many others are being studied with an interest 
unparalleled in this or any previous age. Did he wear a beard, has been 
discussed, peradventure with more zeal than wisdom. 

It is evident that Jesus of Nazereth was born in a society known as 
Esseneans, sometimes called Essenees, a class of people strictly non-car- 
nivorant in their dietetics. They were a religious body, lived a community 
liffi, holding all things in common; were celebates; were "in ancient times 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 35 

called Iesu's, or neutrals, having reached a degree of moral purity, that the sex- 
nature was held in complete subordination to the moral and spiritual nature." 

The Esseneans lived holy and unselfish lives, had unbounded love 
of virtue, industry, temperance, justice and modesty. In short the Gallilean 
Sage was the embodiment of the ethics of the cult, in which he was born 
and raised. They ignored the "eye for the eye, tooth for a tooth, and blood 
for blood" regime of the heathens round about, and in place thereof they 
adopted the non-resistant doctrines to all evil, taught and lived by "Immanuel" 
the "Sent of God." They fed the hungry, clothed the naked, and for strict 
fidelity to all the requirements of the Golden Rule of conduct, in all the 
affairs of life, they stand out conspicuously as examples of pure and holy 
lives, scarcely equalled, never excelled, by any class of people of which 
history makes mention. 

To be "perfect as the Father in Heaven is perfect," was the central 
aspiration of each and all the Essenees, around which all else revolved. 

All the priests of the Church of Rome, popes, cardinals, bishops, etc., 
were, and are to this day, required to be celebates, and the custom is 
without doubt a legacy from the Essenees. 

THE DOCTRINES OF THE ESSENEANS AS GIVEN IN OAHSPE. 

These are the fundamental doctrines of the Esseneans: "Thou shalt 
keep the ten commandments of Moses. Thou shalt not engage in war, nor 
abet war. Thou shalt eat no flesh of any animal, bird or fowl, or creeping 
thing created alive. Thou shalt dwell in families after the manner of the 
ancient Israelites, who held all things in common — see Acts; Chapter 2. Thou 
shalt have no king or queen, nor bow down In worship to any but the 
Creator. Thou shalt not call on the name of angels to worship them, nor 
to counsel with them on the affairs of earth. 

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, and do unto him as thou 
wilt have him do by you. Return good for evil, and pity for them that sin. 
If a man smite thee on one cheek, turn to him the other also. These are 
the substitutes for the "eye for an eye and blood for blood" doctrines of 
the heathen. The man shall have but one wife, and the woman 
but one husband. As the children honor their father, so will the 
family be blest with peace and plenty. Remember that all things are of 
Jehovah, and ye are His servants to help one another. And as much as ye 
do these services to one another, so serve ye Jehovah. Behold only the 
virtues and wisdom in thy neighbor; his faults thou shalt not discover. His 
matters are with his Creator. Call not on the name of any god or lord in 
worship; but worship Jehovah only, and when thou prayest, let it be after 
this manner: "Jehovah, who rulest in the heavens and the earth, hallowed 
be Thy name, and reverent amongst men. Sufficient unto me is my daily 
bread; and as much as I forgive those that trespass against me, so make 
thou me steadfast to shun temptation, for all honor and glory are Thine, 
worlds without end. Amen. 

To visit the sick and distressed, the helpless and the blind, and to 



36 THE HUMAN BODY 

relieve them; to provide for the widow and the orphan, and keep thyself 
unspotted before men; these are the way of redemption. All men are the 
children of One Father, who is Jehovah; and whosoever chooseth Him and 
keepeth His commandments, is His chosen. To preserve the seed of His 
chosen, thou shalt not wed but with His chosen. Contend not with any man 
for opinion's sake, nor for any earthly thing. But let thy speech be for 
others joy; nor open not thy mouth, if thy words will give pain. Therefore 
be considerate of thy speech; teaching others by gentleness and love to be 
respectful toward all men. Preserve the sacred days of the Rabbah's called 
moon's days. For three years the "Sent of God" traveled amongst the 
Israelites, and restoring the ancient doctrines. And there was gathered in 
groups of tens, twenties and fifties, more than two thousand Israelites, of 
the ancient order of Moses, who became steadfast followers of the teachings 
of the Order. 

But because of persecutions, by the apostate Jews, they kept them- 
selves aloof from the world, having signs and passwords, whereby they 
knew one another; akin to those of the Masonic fraternity. First the false 
gods, Baal, Ashteroth and Dagan inspired the kings and rulers, like King 
Antiochus Epiphenes, against these Faithists in Jehovah. And they proved 
them by commanding them to eat flesh; even swine flesh, which, if they 
refused, was testimony sufficient before the laws, to convict them of being 
enemies against the gods mentioned. So they were scourged, and put to 
death wherever found after the manner of Eleazer, and the mother and seven 
sons already alluded to in these pages. 

Now it came to pass, that the anointed high priest of the "Order of 
Malchesedeck" went into Jerusalem to preach, and in not many days there- 
after, he was accused of preaching Jehovah. And he was arrested and 
whilst being carried to prison, he said: "Ye are hypocrites and blasphemers. 
Ye practice none of the commandments, but all the evils of Satan. Ye are 
a generation of vipers, wolves in sheep's clothing, devourers of widows 
houses, etc. Behold the temple shall be rent in twain, and ye shall become 
vagabonds on the earth." At that the mob laid violent hands upon him, and 
all Christendom knows the tragic ending. And Jehovah sent a chariot of 
fire and bore his soul to Paradise. Such is the history as found in Oriental 
literature, and upon which I bank, as do 300,000,000 Confucians who strictly 
adhere to the doctrines of the ancient seers and prophets as did the Gal- 
lilean sage, prophet, priest and healer, of which Moses was a type. 



MASTER PIECE OF THE CREATOR'S SKILL. 

I assume that all the loyal Jews lived in communities, holding all 
things in common And it seems a fitting climax to Jewish communal life, 
that it should have produced a law-giver whose inspired mind was able to 
express the essence of all good laws in one sentence: "Whatsoever ye 
would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." It was a com- 
munistic life that was foreordained to give to the world that masterpiece of 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 37 

the Creator's skill and power, the divinely human and humanly divine man, 
Jesus of Nazereth, in the majesty of whose virtues, heroism and firmness 
in proclaiming truth, language is impoverished; all human description fails, 
and the living light of eloquence is darkened forever. 

It must be just such a combination of environments that must reproduce 
the ''Second Messiah," for whose coming the world is on the tip-toe of ex- 
pectation. 



THE EARLY CHURCH HELD ALL THINGS IN COMMON. 

The early disciples of the Judean prophet held all things in common. 

I assume that our religious organizations are the bulwark of our very 
imperfect civilization, therefore to be fostered. The way out of our declen- 
sion of morals is to labor for the reinstatement of the doctrines and usages 
of the communistic primitive church, as portrayed in the second chapter of 
Acts. The practical working of such a life has been portrayed by Alexander 
Harvey. The description vividly portrays, no doubt, the civilization the 
future has in store for us when the prayer of the ages, "Thy Kingdom come," 
is answered. A return to the communistic life of the early disciples is among 
the possibilities, as I know from a five years' communistic life patterned 
after the Essenean brotherhood. O! you, my reader, may say, such a life 
has been tried and failed again and again. Are you quite sure you are right 
in your conclusions? How about the Shaker communities that flourish in 
every state in the Union, almost? How about the Golden Rule community 
of Iowa? All these communities have demonstrated the feasibility, desira- 
bility and practicability of communistic life. What if some of these enter- 
prises have seemingly failed? The laying of the Atlantic cable was a success 
only after repeated failures. Has not the human family as much of the 
co-operative spirit as a hive of bees, which aptly exemplifies co-operative 
life? If you answer in the negative, then I say shame on the "Lords of 
Creation," who boast of their pre-eminence over bees, and rob them of their 
stores with impunity, and without the formality of saying "if you please." 
All that is needed to make the Incas' communal life a success is the same 
spirit of self-abnegation that the bees manifest in their communal homes. 

There is a community in the South Sea Islands that is worthy of 
mention. The island is called "Tristan de Cuna." Nature has been at no 
pains to prepare an earthly paradise on this lonely isle. Its very remote- 
ness from the world of strife and consequent perils , is what has contributed 
to establish an Arcadia there. The primitive community is as free from 
written laws as a hive of bees. All being law-abiding, they need no laws, 
and consequently no officials to enforce the laws. They have no saloons, 
no butcher shops, no jails. They have no formal government, and pay no 
taxes. They enjoy perfect freedom that never degenerates into license. 

The community is absolutely moral, and in the enjoyment of the in- 
alienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There are no 
stores on the island, therefore no competition. Compare such a civiliza- 



38 THE HUMAN BODY 

tion with ours, where every man who is the head of a family pays on the 
average $25.00 per capita per annum to subordinate crime, safeguard the 
home, church and community, estimated at $500,000,000 per annum in the 
aggregate — more than the percapita tax per annum for education. 

If millionaires refuse to consider the present crisis in our national 
affairs, then I fear that Abraham Lincoln's prediction that the money power 
will prolong its reign until the republic is destroyed will come true. The 
door of escape I have pointed out. The question for us to consider is, shall 
our beloved country travel the highway of TRUST magnates from poverty 
to riches, and its vulgar selfishness, and go down in ruin as did Babylon, 
Egypt and Rome? These questions will do to pray over. 

''Great events cast their shadows before." The shadows are clearly 
perceptible to the eye of spiritual perception. Its coming, and that we may 
be prepared to conceive what will transpire when the "kingdom of heaven 
is established on earth," I will quote from the August 26th number of the 
"Twentieth Century Magazine," in which the writer, Alexander Harvey, 
among other things, said of a fraternal life: "That communistic ideas have 
a solid foundation on which to stand is evidenced by the rise of a mighty 
nation, that grew to mighty proportions, and numbered its citizens by the 
millions, through simple adherence to the principles now preached by the 
Collectivists. The great people had no capitalists, and no competition. 
Every thing was owned in common. Every man, woman and child was as- 
sured a comfortable home, food and clothing. There was no labor problem, 
for the only employer was the state. There was no money, for no one had 
anything to sell. There was no theft, for whatever a citizen wanted he could 
have for the asking. There was no crime, and no public disorder, and that 
modern scourge, poverty, was unknown. 

The Incas is the name by which history hands the record of these 
people down to us. 

Theirs is a marvellous story. It is so beautiful as to be almost a 
dream, but that it was a reality we have the positive evidence. Prescott, the 
historian, is so naive as to wonder how the Incas, with their vast population 
and enormous wealth, could have been so happy, so prosperous and so en- 
lightened, in spite of the fact that private property was unknown among 
them; that they had no idea of crime, in our sense of its expression, and 
that no man could inherit, bequeath or accumulate anything. 

Their land was a paradise. Beautiful buildings in stone and cement 
rose at intervals throughout its vast extent. 

Their roads were magnificent; they were hard and solid, and have 
endured to the present day. Noble aqueducts, traversing the country for 
hundreds of miles in some instances, and constructed on the strictest scientific 
principles, plentifully supplied the cities with pure water. Their cities were 
dreams of beauty. They were as clean as the interior of a palace, and as 
supurb architecturally as an agglomeration of majestic cathedrals. 

There were no stores, no business, no bartering. Such things were 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 39 

unknown. The marked physical beauty of the Incas greatly impressed the 
first Europeans who beheld them. This was due to the extreme care taken 
to preserve them from privation and illness. No Incas was permitted to 
labor more than a third of a day, and frequently not so long as that. The 
country was immensely resourceful in gold, but it was employed only in 
decorating their temples. 

So surprising is the altruistic nature of their civilization, in contrast 
with our own, that it is difficult to believe that the Incas and their history 
is not the part of some immaginary tale. Yet never was history more vera- 
cious, and this account of them is purposely understated. 

The lives lived by the Incas did not lack variety. Every man and 
woman was called upon to do some work, not laborious, but pleasant. The 
hours of labor averaged five daily, not counting holidays, which were nu- 
merous. There was no such thing as wages. Every Incas, upon his marriage, 
was given a home and garden attached, all complete. These homes were 
constantly being prepared, and work upon them was performed by the state. 
The food supply was always in excess of the demand. It all belonged to 
the state, and was regularly distributed by state officials. There was no 
stint in the supply. 

Immense warehouses, of exquisite beauty, stored the public supplies. 
The public flocks supplied wool, from which garments were made. There 
was no detail connected with the life of the people too trivial for the care 
of the state. Particularly was the health of the masses the first care. The 
government practiced the most intelligent unselfishness. Precisely as the 
wise shepherd has an eye to the welfare of even his youngest lamb, did the 
government of the Incas vigilantly aim at the welfare and physical perfec- 
tion of its subjects. Their strength and prosperity were its bulwark. Life 
throughout the vast empire was wonderfully peaceful and happy. Archi- 
tecture was of almost Roman grandeur. Science was a public servant, and 
its aids were great bridges, monuments and temples numerous. Art was 
visible in the garb and homes of the people. Public morality and private 
virtue were of the highest order. 

So wonderfully cohesive was the nation under their regime, that from 
a humble beginning it rapidly spread over South America, and in the course 
of two centuries had reduced neighboring countries to submission, not by 
force or violence, but by examples of right, vastly more potent than might. 

These peaceful communists were formidable in promulgating their 
principles. No sooner had they conquered their enemies by the Golden Rule 
of conduct, than their civilization followed as a natural sequence. The new 
members of the body politic were readily assimilated. There is no record 
of any rebellion against so munificent a system, which was the pure and 
undefiled religion, as taught by the Judean prophet, priest and healer, com- 
monly called the Messiah, lived. The Incas civilization spread rapidly in 
all directions, until the invasion of the Spaniards, with their weapons of 
war, swept the Incas away like chaff. The Incas were eminently refined. 



40 THE HUMAN BODY 

Their courtesies and amenities of life were punctiliously observed. They 
were cleanly and pure. They were never rude. Their government was in 
a sense a despotism, the rule of the chief Incas being supreme. Yet all were 
equally under the law, from the Supreme Incas to the shepherd boy. There 
was a rigid religious cast, but no oppression. The chief Incas was a father 
in the truest and best sense. Indeed, this system rendered oppression super- 
fluous, for nothing could be gained by either. The Incas demonstrated the 
feasibility, desirability and practicability of Primitive Christianity. If in this 
20th century we are incapable of profiting by their example, then denomina- 
tionalism is sadly in arrears of the Incas. Truly may it be said the govern- 
ment of the Incas was of the people, by the people and for the people. 
Emulate! Emulate! 

The Incas may be pointed to as the people who, when the prayer of 
the ages, "Thy Kingdom come," is fulfilled, we shall see the Incas history 
repeating itself. 

It was solely owing to the fact that the Incas lived the "pure and 
undefiled religion," that they were enabled to become the dominant race of 
South America. The invading Spaniards owed their supremacy to gun- 
powder, against which the Incas had no means of contending. 

Civilization, as we know it, is one long record of unspeakable shame 
and infamy, but nothing in its record is more revolting than its invasion into 
the territory of the peaceful, law-abiding, God-adoring, reverent Incas. 

Our civilization proved the curse of the Incas, and swept them off the 
face of the earth; they strictly adhering to the non-resistant teachings of 
the Messianic code taught and lived by he Nazerenes. They were unprepared 
to resist the conquering, bloodthirsty Spaniards, whose minions have written 
their history with pens dipped in blood. 



THE SCHOOL IN WHICH THE MESSIAH WAS TUTORED. 

Speaking of the perpetuation of the doctrines of the Essenees, and 
some of their mysteries, under the name of "School of Natural Science," 
the learned author of Harmonic Series, Vol. 3, entitled the "Great Work," 
says: "The term 'School of Natural Science' is not the name of the great 
school herein referred to has been known to its members throughout the 
ages. Its lineage and history cover a consecutive and unbroken chain 
backwards from the immediate present to a time many thousands of years 
before the Mosaic period. In truth the chain is complete to a long time 
before Egypt had become a center of learning, civilization and power. The 
most ancient records of this time, known to man, are those of the Great 
School. Free Masonry, in its modern form, represents but one of the many 
efforts of the great parent school, to transmit its knowledge to the world 
in definite, scientific and crystalized form. 

The life and ministry of Jesus represents another effort of the Great 
School to convey its message of light and life to the world. 

"To this school Jesus went for his spiritual instruction. In it he 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 41 

spent the years of his special preparation. From it he went forth to preach 
the Gospel of Peace and the Kingdom of Love. For the cause it repre- 
sents he labored, suffered and died. The relationship of the Master, Jesus, 
to the Ancient School of India, and of the Great School to his life work, 
may be established beyond all question by those whose interest and desire 
impel them to the task with sufficient intelligence, courage and perseverance 
to complete the search. To that end the following brief chain of data and 
evidence may be of helpful interest. 

"The records of the Great School contain a detailed history of the 
life of Jesus, of his education and preparation for his work in the world, 
and the purposes to be accomplished thereby. While it is true that these 
records are not accessible to the general public, they are nevertheless open 
to those who are duly and truly prepared, worthy and well qualified, who 
can establish the right of such confidence. The term MASTER is used 
as in Masonry, like Master Mason, so far as they have been 
accurately stated in the Gospels, are identical in spirit and principle with 
those of the Great School. In so far as we have a public record of his life 
and teachings during his active ministry, he was but echoing the ethical 
philosophy of the ages as it has been wrought out and crystalized within the 
secret body of the Great School of the Masters. Notwithstanding the 
possible errors of historians, the inacuracies of translators, and the mis- 
takes and interpolations of reviewers, the Gospels themselves contain many 
of the most significant links in the chain of facts which bind the Master 
Jesus, to the Ancient School of India. As an illustration, it will be recalled 
that when Jesus was born, 'there came wise men from the East to Jerusa- 
lem," etc. Who were these wise men? And whence came they? Were 
they members of the Egyptian school of magic, as some have claimed? 
And did they, therefore, come from the land of Egypt? The relative 
locations of Egypt and Jerusalem are, of themselves alone, a most direct 
and conclusive answer to all these questions. Egypt lies to the south and 
west of Jerusalem. They were, therefore, not from Egypt, for they were 
from "the East" — the Orient. Is it not remarkable that Biblical students 
have taken so little note of the most significant phase of this unusual 
incident? The mere fact that the 'wise men' came at all, or from any 
direction at such a time, is of itself significant. For their coming is con- 
clusive evidence of the remarkable fact that they were already acquainted 
with the events leading up to the birth of Christ, and understood the im- 
portance of his life and something of his mission. 

"Why is it such evidence? Because they came to worship not him, but 
the principles the ''men of sorrows" advocated. As an Essenean, he 
frowned upon hero worship. Rebukingly, he answered the young lawyer 
who saluted him: "Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" 
"Why callest thou me good? There is none good save one, that is God." 

But as a key to his subsequent instruction, it is far more significent, that 
the wise men came from the East. And so it is that the Gospels themselves 



42 THE HUMAN BODY 

verify the records of the Great School, wherein the 'wise men of the East' 
have personally recorded their own account of the same event. Another 
seeming mystery which has puzzled and disturbed our modern students 
of Biblical history, and for which they have found no adequate or satisfactory 
explanation, finds a clear, simple and complete solution to students of the 
Great School. 

"In the 'Book of Hebrews' it is recorded that Jesus was made an high 
priest, forever, after the Order of Malchizedek (Heb. 6:20), thus distinguish- 
ing him from members of the priesthood of the Order of Aaron (Heb. 7:11). 
The seeming mystery is that which surrounds the identity of Melchizedek. 
Who was he? And what was the priestly order of which he was a member? 
When it is known that his name is familiar to to the Great School as one 
of its most illustrious Grand High Priests, the scriptural record that Jesus 
was made a High Priest of the same Order, dispels the mystery, and another 
link in the chain of relationship is completed. 

"Yet another interesting and significant fact concerning Jesus, is that 
the Gospels give us a minute and vivid account of his birth, infancy and 
early youth, at which time he suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from 
public view, and for eighteen years he remained in such absolute and im- 
penetrable seclusion and obscurity that but one single, indefinite and unim- 
portant reference is made to his life during all these eighteen years (Luke, 
2:52). That he should disappear at the interesting age of twelve, just at 
a time when he had made such a profound impression by confounding the 
learned doctors at Jerusalem, and reappear only at the age of thirty, is, 
of itself, a most remarkable incident. Tbat he should disappear as a 
precocious child, and reappear as a Master, is far more significant; for of 
this fact alone we have evidence of the most positive and conclusive char- 
acter, that the mysterious and unexplained interval of eighteen years was 
a period of the most vital importance, in that these were the years of 
his preparation for his public work. But when the further fact is known 
that the records of the Great School contain a detailed account of his life 
and work as a student of the masters during that remarkable interval of 
his preparation, another mystery is explained. In this connection it is also 
significant that John the Baptist, immediately preceding his return, pro- 
claimed his coming in terms of the most definite and unqualified character, 
and in his own way, endeavored to prepare the public to receive him. 

"All this is indisputable evidence of his absence. It also bears spe- 
cific testimony to the fact that John was fully advised of his coming, and 
that he also had definite information of the nature of his mission and the 
character of the work to be inaugurated by him, and that his return was an 
event of unusual importance. 

"Then again when the Master, later on, refused to tell the chief 
priests and scribes by what authority he came among them and performed 
such wonders, he was but following the policy of the secrecy and silence 
in strict conformity with the Great School, practiced throughout the ages, 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 43 

and will continue to do so until secrecy, silence and obscurity are no longer 
necessary to protect it from the selfish obstructions of men." 

If the subject is of sufficient interest to inspire the reader to further 
inquiry, a thoughtful reading of the Gospels; in the light of these suggestions; 
will disclose to him many other evidences of a similar and corroborative 
nature, the presentation of which is not in keeping with the object the 
writer has in view, which is, that the Essenees were a community of non-car- 
nivorants in their dietetices, holding all things in common. 

The objects in view in fasting often, common among the Essenees, 
I must not, for the want of space, dwell upon. 

A writer of note recently asked the question: "Did Jesus wear a 
beard?" He offered many speculative opinions on the disputed and dis- 
putable problem, and then left a dark subject where he found it. In the 
absence of positive proof, I venture the opinion that the Gallilean Sage 
wore a beard. He was a High Priest of the Order of Malchezedek, and the 
priests of the order were distinguished from the common people by a pro- 
fusion of beard, as was Aaron and his priestly co-workers. Aaron and his 
beard have become as familiar to Bible students as household words — like 
the Siamese twins, they are one and inseparable. The priests of the Order 
of Malchezedek were akin in many ways to the Order of the Aaron priest- 
hood. Christ being one of the Order, he doubtless did not ignore the 
distinguishing insignia of his office. 



ALL FLESH EATING COUNTRIES WRITE THEIR HISTORY IN LETTERS 

OF BLOOD. 

This knowledge is of great practical utility; but it is to be sought for, 
not its own sake exclusively, but as a means of bringing out from obscurity 
and neglect much that the world is on the tip-toe of anticipation of re- 
ceiving. This knowledge will bring us nearer to our "Great Elder Brother," 
and will prove an answer to the prayer so often sung, "Nearer my God 
to Thee, nearer to Thee." Such knowledge will let us into the secrets of 
this divinely human and humanly divine mind; of revealing to us his spirit 
and character, and bringing us into the clear light of this mind, opening 
age, the full particulars of all he did and said; when, where and what he 
ate and drank, is deemed of vital import, as it is now recognized as a 
scientific fact, that man becomes like the elements he feeds upon. If a 
pork eater and his forefathers for several generations before him were 
the same, the science of Eugenics — or like producing like— assumes that 
such food will develop swinish propensities in the consumer, and to his 
children and children's children "to the third and fourth generation." 

It is only by knowing the people among whom Jesus was born and 
raised, to manhood, that we can approximately comprehend the originality, 
strength and dignity of his character; his unbounded, self-subsisting ex- 
cellence, his marvelous, self-sacrificing love, that knew no bounds. 

Now I assume that had he been a flesh eater, he would have fallen 



44 THE HUMAN BODY 

very far short of being the patient, forbearant, long suffering, forgiving 
character he is portrayed to be by his historians. 

In all flesh-eating countries the people are, as a rule, blood-thirsty, 
warlike and selfish. They write their history in letters of blood. China 
knew no war for 3,000 years, then she was invaded by the Tartars and 
conquered, but such was her ingrained, deep-rooted faith that the "pen is 
mightier than the sword" that she by shrewd diplomacy conquered the 
Tartars, and Tartary became a province of China, and has so remained 
ever since. 

The '-Great Wall of China" remains to this day as a monument to 
her far seeing wisdom, coupled with her state religion — which is Con- 
fucianism — the fundamental doctrine of which is: That right is a more 
potent factor of a true civilization than might. 

Confucianism practices the Golden Rule of conduct, and that is the 
secret of her marvelous numerical strength. 300,000,000 — three times the 
population of the United States. Think of it! 

Conspicuous among the doctrines of the Confucians — like those of 
the Esseneans — were, "Thou shalt not engage in war, nor abet war; thou 
shalt eat no flesh of any animal, bird or fowl, or creeping thing 
created alive." 

The truth is, not a few of us apprehend the circumstances under 
which "Jesus of Nazereth" lived and taught; therefore much of the pro- 
priety, beauty and authority of his character is lost to view. 

It is my aim, in a feeble way, to bring this shining light out from 
obscurity and neglect, and place him on the high pinnacle of fame as the 
embodiment of all the virtues in concrete. 

Now I assume that all the loyal Jews lived in communities, holding 
all things in common. Again I lay it down as an historical fact, that Jesus 
of Nazareth, John the Baptist, James the First, Barnabas, and Peter, in 
short all of the apostles, with the one exception of Paul, who did not 
unite with the brotherhood until some time after his conversion, all were 
Nazerites or Esseneans, a community of Jews loyal to the hygienic laws 
as given to their forefathers. 

Now by searching into the history of the Essenean Brotherhood, in 
which Jesus was born and reared, we gather many facts that reveal to us, 
beyond a peradventure, the environments that had rrruch to do in giving to 
the world, at an opportune time, a man foreordained and predestinated by 
the Supreme Ruler of the universe, as His mouthpiece to His chosen in 
the most crucial period of the Jews' history as a nation. 

History leaves a blank leaf between the old and New Testaments, 
but it would be a mistaken idea to infer that the period between the two was 
uneventful. 

Four hundred years passed after Malachi wrote his last word, before 
the beginning of the period of which Matthew writes, one of the Gospels, 
primarily called the Gospel of the Esseneans. 



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In some respects it was the most glorious epoch in Jewish history, 
resplendent with heroic struggles, fierce conflict, and heroic achievement 
in which the non-carnivorant dietetics of the Jew figured conspicuously. In 
fact it was made a test by which the Jehovians were known, and their loyalty 
to the dietetic laws of their forefathers was punishable by death. The 
tortures to which the loyal Jews were subjected if they refused to butcher 
swine in their own temples, and sprinkle the blood upon their own altars, 
desecrated by the heathen who had by might, not right, come in possession; 
has been presented in all its terrible reality in the history of the martyr- 
dom of Eleazer the scribe and the mother and seven sons who chose death 
by the most excruciating tortures, found in the Apochrapha, because they 
would not eat swine's flesh, as did the idolators in the Greek temples, 
dedicated to the worship of the false god Zeus. 

That history gives us a glimpse only of the horrible butcheries per- 
petrated against the Esseneans. 

The last scenes of the Old Testament history are marvelously pathetic. 
They represent the little band of Hebrews, newly emancipated from the 
Babylonian captivity, striving to establish among the ruins of their beloved 
city their national existence. 

Nehemiah draws a vivid picture of the harassed men, laboring on 
the walls, with a tool in one hand and a weapon in the other, watching 
night and day, against zealous foes, who might attack them at any moment. 

But how could the feeble colony of vegetarians, surrounded by hostile 
foes, sustain itself without a friend or an ally? 

The answer of Nehemiah showed his faith and piety; namely: "Let 
the people be true to their God and His commandments, and God would 
protect them from their foes." 

Nevertheless, as the curtain falls from the hand of the inspired 
historian, the prospect looks ominous, and the reader wonders what will 
be the outcome? But the voice of the scribe is silent, and we have to 
turn to the pages of the Apochrypha and secular history for the story: 



NATIONAL RECOGNITION. 

The community of vegetarians, named Esseneans, appear to be prac- 
tically self governing. The waning" power of Persia, under whose auspices 
the Hebrews had returned from their captivity, was not exerted either for 
their control or their protection. The high priest Ezra, as the interpreter 
of the newly written law, was in supreme authority, supported by a council 
of elders. Left thus to themselves, and conscious of their weakness, nu- 
merically, the Jews were careful not to give the Persians any pretext for 
attack, and still more careful not to violate any commandments of God by 
a neglect of His ordinances as to hygiene, including the command: "Flesh 
shall man not eat." 

The temple services were resumed, and the feasts and fasts were 
duly observed. 



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The little community grew in numbers and in wealth, and they 
served their Lawgiver with more fidelity than at any previous period of 
their history. David reveals the why. Speaking of their wilderness history, 
and their rebellion at the manna diet, and their clamoring for the flesh pots of 
Egypt, which clamoring was granted, supplying quails an infinitude, with 
proper warning that they should have the flesh food for a month, or until 
it became more loathsome to them than the manna, against which they 
murmured. The record says that a hundred and twenty thousand died in 
one day, and I have somewhere read that 60,000 died in the month. With 
what result? David says when He thus permitted evil angels to go among 
them, and slay them, then they sought their God, and they returned and 
enquired early after God. 

With the history of their forefathers in the wilderness, and the fearful 
punishment following their disobedience of the dietetic law, not yet ob- 
literated from the book of their remembrance, they were careful that the 
punishment visited upon their forefathers in the wilderness was not repeated 
in their history. 

There were no idols now, no sacrifices to strange gods. The people 
had come back from Babylon with a profound conviction that there was 
only one God, and that they were His people. 

Passing over a period in Jewish history, pregnant with events of a 
notable character, we come to a period in Jewish history named the 



GREAT PERSECUTiON. 

The great crises In the history of the Jewish people, in Palestine, 
came in the year 178 B. C. 

I called attention to this crisis in my previous discourse of which this 
is a continuation. But some Bible truths bear telling o'er and o'er. 

In the year 178 B. C. Antiochus Epiphenes became king of Syria. 
He determined not only on the complete subjugation of Palestine, but 
rooting out Jewish faith and practices; especially their non-carnivorous 
dietetice aroused his fierce enmity. He determined to make the Greek cult 
paramount throughout his empire. He captured Jerusalem and proceeded 
to desecrate the sacred places. An altar to the Greek deity, Zeus, was 
set up in the temple. Swine was offered in sacrifices and their blood 
sprinkled on the holy place. 

Strictly adhering to the requirements of the dietetic law as given 
to their forefathers through Moses, which was prohibitory of any animal 
being offered in sacrifice but those which were clean, free from disease, 
and were "split in the hoof and that chewed the cud." 

The Essenean Jews heroically refused to bend the knee in servility 
to the mandate of the tyrant king, and offer sacrifices to the false god, Zeus. 

This exasperated the king, so to make the work of destruction more 
complete, he ordered all the books of the law destroyed, by burning. Nor 
was the tyrant satisfied with these outrages. He determined that Jewish 



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priests themselves should take the part of desecrators, by butchering swine 
and sprinkling the altar with their blood. 

All who refused to partake of the sacrifice, and sprinkle the blood 
upon the altar, were deemed traitors to the Greek god, and death by the 
most excruciating tortures was the penalty for disobedience. 

I have cited the case of Eleazer, the scribe, and the mother and seven 
sons murdered in cold blood by the tyrant in previous pages on the 
subject, "The Bible Prohibitory of Flesh as Food"; read sixth and seventh 
chapters of Maccabees. 

We now have a glimpse at least of the history of the loyal non- 
carnlvorant Essenean Jews, their strict fidelity to the commandment, "Flesh 
shall man not eat," and Jesus was an Essenean, and had inherited from 
his ancestors the doctrines and tenets of the order, we can better com- 
prehend the deep significance of his words, when he proclaimed, without 
proviso, "I came not to destroy the law but to fulfil." And further he said, 
"Verily I say unto you that not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law 
until all be fulfilled." 

And to still further emphasize he said. '-Whosoever shall attempt 
to divorce the law from the Gospel, shall be called the least in the king- 
dom of heaven, but whosoever shall do and teach the oneness of the twain, 
shall be called great in the kingdom." 

Now the question confronts us: Was the command, "Flesh shall man 
not eat," included in the law of which Jesus was talking, and not one jot 
or tittle should pass from it, until it be fulfilled. 

I assume that it was, and challenge a successful refutation. 

Now I think that I have shown that the whole law, including that 
part of it which prohibited the flesh of animals as food, was recognized by 
the Esseneans, and for which hundreds and thousands died as martyrs rather 
than violate it. We can safely conclude that Jesus of Nazereth lived in 
strict obedience to the dietetics of the Essenean order, and their forefathers. 

Nowhere in the scriptures do we find that Jesus or his apostles 
partook of the flesh of animals as food that were "split in the hoof, or that 
chewed the cud." And as there were no idols to offer sacrifice to, after 
the Hebrews returned from Babylon, there was no farther need for the 
partaking of the flesh of oxen, sheep or calves, on sacrificial occasions, 
permitted in the long distant past. 

That Jesus and his disciples sometimes ate fish, there is scriptural 
evidence to prove. At the feeding of the 5,000 the record states that he 
took "five barley loaves and a few small fishes," and gave to the 
multitude, and that they ate and were filled. Then the disciples gathered 
up twelve baskets of food that remained, more than at the beginning of the 
spread. There was a miracle as great or greater than the turning of water 
into wine. 

Why not give the hungry multitude flesh of animals "split in the 
hoof and that chewed the cud," if flesh of that character was permissible 



48 THE HUMAN BODY 

as food? "It would require no more of a miraculous power to provide 
flesh of that character for the multitude than to furnish flesh to the rebels 
in the wilderness, which David affirms God rained down upon them as 
dust, and feathered fowl like as sands upon the sea, and let it fall in the 
midst of the camp, a day's journey in all directions, and two cubits high." 

What a miracle! Did it require more wisdom than was manifested 
on that occasion, to produce the miraculous draft of fishes? Answer, who can. 

The disciples had been out fishing all night, and had caught nothing. 
Discouraged and hungry, they approached the shore. Jesus met them, took 
cognizance of their need, told them where to cast their nets; with the 
result that their nets brake, because of the multitude of fishes gathered in. 
It is fair to assume that the disciples ate of the catch. At the last supper, 
we are informed by the sacred historian that Jesus took fish, and blessed 
it, and gave to his disciples and they did eat. Can any one point out on 
the pages of the New Testament where Jesus took the flesh of sheep or 
oxen, and blessed it, and gave to his disciples to eat? 



THE ESSENEAN DIETETICS MANDATORY IN THE APOSTOLIC AGE. 

Before going further, allow me to digress a moment to present strong 
presumptive if not positive evidence that the Essenean brotherhood was 
still in existence and living up to all the requirements and usages of its 
community life in the Apostolic age. We read in the 4th chapter of Acts, 
that there was a PENTECOSTAL occasion, — that signs and wonders were 
done in the name of Christ. The account reads: "And when the apostles 
had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together, 
and they were filled with the Holy Ghost, and they, — the apostles, — spake 
the word of God with boldness." 

The Esseneans were a community of vegetarian Jews, that held all 
things in common. Any person desiring admission must come in empty 
handed, or if they had possessions they must be sold, and the proceeds 
given to the elders or chiefs, to be deposited in the general treasury for 
the general use of all. 

Jesus being an Essenean, I can more readily comprehend the deep 
significance of the words spoken to the young lawyer, who came asking, 
"Good master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" 

"Go and sell all that thou hast and give to the poor and then come 
and follow me. Where? Into the Essenean Community and then having 
taken the ''Holy Covenants" follow me on a ministry of service to the poor, 
who he assured him, he had always with him. 

That was asking too much, for the young lawyer had great posses- 
sions. He went away sorrowful. 

On this Pentecostal occasion the record states "that the multitudes 
of them that believed or were converted by the apostles, preaching, were 
of one heart and soul; neither said any of them aught of the things which 



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they possessed was their own, but they had all things in common. Neither 
was there among them any that lacked, for as many of them as were pos- 
sessed of lands or houses, sold them, and brought the price of the things 
that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles' feet; and distribution 
was made unto every man according as he had need. 

And Barnibas having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid 
it at the apostles' feet, one of the initial ceremonies of a convert before 
joining the community. 

All know tha tragic event that caused the sudden demise of Annanias 
and Saphira. They applied for admission to the community, but they kept 
back part of the price of the land. The reader knows the result. 

Now it is conclusively settled in my own mind at least, that Peter was 
an Essenean of the strictest sort, orthodox to the core. He held that all 
the gentile converts should be required to keep the whole law which in- 
cluded the diet law, which prohibited the use of flesh of any animal that 
breathed the breath of life, creeping things, or things strangled, as food. 

Paul when he first entered the ministry, was not, I infer, a full- 
fledged Essenean, he was for giving the gentile converts a latitude along 
food lines wider than the customs and usages of the Essenean brotherhood 
sanctioned, but he was not yet a covenanted member of the community, 
being what was in ancient times called a Levitican, he was outside the jur- 
isdiction of the order. So we find Paul, instructing the gentile converts 
to go to the "shambles, and whatsoever is sold there that buy and eat." 

This departure from the customs and usages of the Esseneans greatly 
grieved Peter, and led to many disputations between the twain. Paul is on 
record as saying: "I withstood him, Peter, face to face." Paul and Peter's 
converts took sides, and as each had a large following, and as Paul had 
instructed his converts when invited to a feast, to eat whatsoever was set 
before them, asking no questions for conscience sake, the breach grew wider 
and wider between the Jew and Gentile converts. 

Petei''s converts named in the scriptures, collectively, " certain men," 
Acts 15th, which came down from Judea, taught the brethren and said, "Ex- 
cept ye be circumcized after the manner of Moses ye cannot be saved." 
Paul asks the question of his converts, "what advantage then hath the Jew; 
or what profit is there of circumcision?" Read the first three chapters of 
Romans and be your own judge. 

This breach between Paul's converts and Peter's grew to sucti dimen- 
sions that it was determined by interested parties, for the sake of peace, 
to send Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them should go up to 
Jerusalem, unto the apostles and elders about the question. " 

When they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church 
and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had 
done for them. Time and space will not permit details of the proceedings 
of the council. Suffice it to say that the outcome of the convention was 
the council sent Paul and Barnabas to the church at Antioch, with 



50 THE HUMAN BODY 

letters, the gist of which was, "It seemed good to us and the F ■ *y Ghost 
to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, that ye ab- 
stain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, 
from which if ye keep yourselves ye shall do well," as new converts might 
hwe been added. 

I can plainly see that the instructions were a compromise measure 
between Paul's followers and Peter's. It was not coming fully up to the re- 
quirements of the Essenean brotherhood, but it was all that was deemed 
prudent for the gentile converts called Leviticans, that for a time must be 
fed on milk suitable for babes in Christ, leaving the rest for time to accom- 
plish, by growth in grace. To more fully comprehend the situation, and the 
necessity of leading the Leviticans step by step to a knowledge of the re- 
quirements of the Essenean brotherhood as to membership, it will be well 
to learn of the horrible practices of the unregenerate gentiles in their 
orgies on sacrificial occasions to the Greek god, Zeus. They, the Greeks 
were in the habit of cutting strips of flesh from the thighs of their live 
prisoners of war, and eat it dripping with blood, and at the same time swear- 
ing the most solemn oaths of allegiance to their god in the temples of wor- 
ship. 

To alienate the converts from such horrible practices was the object 
of the instructions to the gentile converts of the church of Antioch, and as 
many of them succeeded in obeying the instructions of the elders, they would 
certainly do well, and in time be prepared, if faithful to take the next ad- 
vance step, as full members of the brotherhood, in which degree they would 
be required to covenant to Jehovah and abstain entirely from the flesh of all 
animals that "breathed the breath of life, of things strangled, or creeping 
things." Fish not being a breathing form of life, and having no red blood, 
as a rule was not prohibited, evidently. 

The student of the apostolic career of both Paul and Peter cannot fail 
to see that both were not full-fledged disciples of the Nazerene. Both had 
much to learn, and much, very much, to unlearn, ere they were prepared to 
minister to the people in the lofty spirit of Him they both professed to re- 
vere and follow. 

Peter merited rebuke from Jesus. His zeal was not always tempered 
with wisdom. He was not always truthful. He denied that he was a dis- 
ciple thrice on one occasion, and was rebuked for this want of fidelity to the 
truth. He was told to his face that ere the cock crew thrice he would deny 
his lord and master, and at cock crowing the prediction came true, he was 
reminded of his weakness and bowed his head in sorrow for his venality. 

During his apostleship he was prone to allow his Jewish prejudices 
against the Gentiles to unduly manifest itself, especially against Paul's 
converts. It became necessary to open his blind eyes to his folly, to appeal 
to his consciousness in a way more potent than words. Eyes as well as 
ears must be brought into service. To this end a sheet was let down from 
heaven, in which were apparently all manner of four-footed beasts, and 



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fowls of the air, and creeping things, and he was commanded when raven- 
ously hungry to arise and kill and eat. 

The reader knows the history. The vision broke down the barbed 
wire fence Peter had erected between his converts and Paul's, and he is 
led to exclaim: "I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but they 
that fear him and work righteousness are accepted of him." 

Thus he grew in grace, as did Paul, who grew in knowledge and Christ- 
likeness as he became more and more baptized into the spirit manifest on 
the day of Pentecost, with power. 

As an example we find him instructing his converts, largely gentiles, 
to ignore Peter's instructions in regard to dietetics. He instructs them "to 
go to the "shambles and whatever is sold there that buy and eat." 

That was giving to the Gentile converts a latitude that orthodox Peter 
could not tolerate with patience. He charged Paul with a wide departure 
from the usages and doctrines of the Essenean brotherhood, which required 
a strict adherance to the letter of the commandment given by God to the 
ante-deluvians and reiterated to the post-deluvians, with ''Thus saith the 
Lord," emphasis, ''FJesh shall men not eat." Paul did not take kindly to 
Peter's criticisms, and he is on record as saying, "I withstood him face to 
face." 

But Paul was an adept as a diplomat, the interests of Christ's king- 
dom were uppermost in his consciousness of what he conceived to be for 
the best good of humanity. He was determined to know nothing but Christ 
and just in the ratio that the eyes of his undei standing were opened, he put 
in practice his highest concept of the requirements of the law and the gospel. 
In time- he advanced a long stride from the one he occupied when he in- 
structed his converts, " f o eat whatever was set beforo them, asking no ques- 
tions for conscience sake." 

He deems it wisest to take a middle ground between his former 
views and those of Peter. He adopted as the ruling sentiment of his min- 
istry, "Let no man put a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his 
brothers' way. In Romans 14th he outlines, 1st, "Our duty to others; 2nd 
our duty to God; 3rd. various admonitions. This epistle was written early 
in A. D. 58. 

The circumstances under which it was written from Corinth to the 
Church of Rome may be worded briefly as follows: The church was made 
up of both Jewish and Gentile converts. The former were imbued with the 
doctrines of the Essenean brotherhood, inculcated by Peter, that it was 
wrong to eat certain kinds of flesh foods, because the law of Moses pro- 
nounced them unclean; they believed also in circumcision, and in the ob- 
servation of holy days, etc. 

The Gentiles conceived all this to be unnecessary, for Paul had in- 
structed them to go to the shambles and whatsoever was sold there that 
buy and eat. 



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The disputation about circumcision and dietetics culminated in the 
refusal to fellowship with the Jewish converts on the part of the Gentiles, 
they branding the sticklers for the synagogue usages as "bigots," the Jews 
on the other hand pointed the finger of scorn at Paul's followers and stig- 
matized them as "Gentile dogs," etc. 

In the 4th chapter of Romans, Paul realizes the suicidal policy of both 
factions in the church, and in a conciliatory spirit advises both parties to 
"bury the hatchet" and entertain a spirit of liberty, true Christian charity 
and self denial. Interest in each others welfare is the Golden Text of his 
epistle. Read it from the 12th to the 23d verses, they are full to repletion 
of suggestions that will do to think about profoundly, and pray over. 

Paul discovered that in grieving the Esseneans with his meat, he was 
not walking in love, and to his followers he says, "If thy brethren be grieved 
by thy meat, destroy not them with thy meat. Let us therefore not judge 
one another any more, for I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, etc." 

How grandly Paul swung himself into independence of character, cut- 
ting loose from the traditions of his fathers, from the leading string of his 
early education, from teachings at the feet of the Gamaliels of his time 
and country; and harder still, to accomplish the renunciation of his former 
instructions to his converts to "eat whatsoever was set before them." 

Paul yields his former convictions and judgment to the Holy Ghost 
influence, but not until the light from celestial realms shot its persuasion 
through his mind, as it did when on his way to Demascus to put to death 
by the sword the Esseneans who had incurred his displeasure by what he 
considered to be bigotry and superstition. 

The point which I wish to emphasize is that Paul, like all other babes 
in Christ, was subject to a law of unfoldment, like all other converts, into 
Christlikeness of character and achievement. Having reached the middle 
ground between himself and Peter, he was on the road to take another stride 
in the right direction, in tearing down the wall of partition that separated 
the Jews and Gentile converts into hostile bands, when he heroically avowed 
that as long as the world standeth," "I will no more eat flesh, lest I may make 
my brethren to offend." 



PAUL LED TO MAKE THE AVOWAL AFTER THE CONVENTION AT 

JERUSALEM. 

Paul after having heard the arguments, pro and con, at the convention 
at Jerusalem, resolved to unite with the brotherhood under consideration, 
in full fellowship, and to do so he must take the "Holy Covenants," which 
prohibited flesh as food. 

That covenant marked a new era in Paul's life as an apostle. No 
more does he advise his converts when invited to a feast to eat what was 
set before them. In place thereof we find him giving exhortations about 
a proper observance of the covenants bearing upon the hygienic laws, how 
to "keep their bodies under," etc. "Know ye not that your bodies are the 



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temple of the Holy Spirit?" To make it so, there must be no indulgence in 
unclean foods. In Corinthians, 10th chapter is a digest of both the law and 
the gospel as to one's habits of living. 

It reads, "Moreover, my brethren, I would not that ye shou'd be 
ignorant, how Ibat our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through 
Iht sea, and were all baptized with Moses in the cloud and in the sea." But 
with many of th< in God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in 
the wilderness. Neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured, for 
flesh, and were destroyed by the destroyer, "evil angels," three and twenty 
thousand falling in one day." 

"Now all these things were written for our example, and they are 
written for our admonition, to the intent that we should not lust after 
flesh as they also lusted." 



PETER'S VISION FURTHER ELUCIDATED. 

In the 10th chapter of Acts, the record state that Peter while in a 
trance, and very hungry, saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending 
unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let down 
to the earth, wherein were all kinds of four footed beasts, and creeping- 
things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, saying, "Rise 
Peter, kill and eat." But Peter said, "Not so Lord, for I have never eaten 
anything that is common or unclean." 



THE LESSON OF THE VISION. 

I assumed at the opening of my lessons on Bible hygiene, that the 
whole controversy as to the Bible mandate, "Flesh shall man not eat," 
hinged on the disputed question; whether Moses annulled, repealed, or amend- 
ed the diet law as given to Noah in the 9th chapter of Genesis. It is an 
historical fact that the ante-deluvians were plant food consumers. During 
the Mosaic period there were changes made in which the flesh of animals 
"split in the hoof and that chewed the cud," were permitted in sacrifices, 
but not as food. 

Issue has been taken with me on that point, but all I have to say is 
to the ''law and testimony let us come." I think I have presented conclusive 
evidence that the statute on which the problem hinges had reference to 
sacrifices on feast days only. 

But the vision of Peter and its sequences, adds additional evidence of 
a strongly pronounced character in support of the claim that all were 
Esseneans, consequently non carnivorant in their dietetics. 

In the sheet let down from heaven, it was written that there was "ALL 
kinds" of four footed beasts. If so then there were animals "split in the 
hoof and that chewed the cud," which it has been assumed dogmatically, 
not proven, were permissible as food. But evidently, Peter did not so regard 
it. To the command, "Rise Peter, kill and eat," he answered as an Essen- 
ean would be expected to do, "I have never eaten anything that is common 



54 THE HUMAN BODY 

or unclean." That is evidence, conclusive, that in Peter's concept the flesh of 
animals "split in the hoof and that chewed the cud," was "common and un- 
clean," therefore not to be partaken of as food. 

Further, the record says, there were fowls of the air in that sheet, that 
as a rule are strangled to death before used as food. Peter included every 
form of life, quadruped, fowls and birds of the air in his refusal to kill and 
eat, as "common and unclean." 

What was Peter's interpretation of the vision? 

Read the 10th chapter of the Acts and you can find a solution of the 
problem in the following words to the Centurian Cornelias, a devout man, 
"Ye know that it is unlawful for a man that is a Jew to keep company, 
or come into one of another nation; but God hath shown me that I should 
not call any MAN, mark the word, 'common or unclean.' " 

Evidently the vision was presented to Peter to break down his pre- 
judices and misconceptions in regard to the gentile world, as not being par- 
takers of the glorious privileges of children of the most high God. With 
that lesson, forcibly expressed, the barrier that separated Paul's followers 
from Peter's was obliterated, and the twain came together as co-workers, 
especially as Paul had openly declared that he would no more eat flesh. 



DOES THE FOLLOWING TEXT LEAVE A GAP !N MY THEORY? 

'•Not that which goeth into a man, defileth a man, but that which cometh 
out," is a text often cited to nullify my assumptions. This scripture must 
be taken with a grain of allowance. We all know that the scriptures them- 
selves from cover to cover, represent flesh foods as defiling abominations. 
They must go into a man to defile him. No one can cavil at the statement that 
whiskey taken into the stomach habitually defiles. The 80,000 that annually 
go down to drunkards graves in the United States proclaim in stentorian 
tones that alcohol is a defiling abomination. 

The quails eaten by the rebellious Jews resulted in catarrh of the most 
malignant character. The discharge, skin to the glanders in horses, laid 
low in death, 23,000 in one day, proved loathsome because of its defilement. 

The swine's flesh consumed annually in the United States, I assume, 
causes the deaths of 150,000 persons. 

Says the "Great I am," And it shall come to pass if thou wilt not 
hearken unto the words of the Lord thy God, to observe his dietetic com- 
mandments and his statutes, that curses shall come upon thee and thou 
shalt be smitten with consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflam- 
ation, and with an extreme burning, and the "evil angels,, shall pursue thee 
until thou perish." 

May it not be possible that the 150.000 consumptives that are fleeing 
from all parts of the United States to California, are the victims of violated 
law, that prohibits swine's flesh as food? I so affirm and defy a successful 
contradiction. 

Swine's flesh is a defiling abomination, so says the scriptures again 



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and again. Whiskey, swine's flesh, quails, etc., must go into a man to thus 
defile, there is no other solution of the problem. 

We are not required to violate reason and judgment, both God endov 
ed, we must study the general import of scripture bearing upon the subject 
or we may fall into serious error. 

Were it not that an important lesson is connected with my long fasts 
of forty days each, which if heeded would prove of transcendent value to all 
who are seeking knowledge of the laws of life and health, physically, men- 
tally, morally and spiritually, I would prefer not to refer to my experiences 
i:i fasting and shall not do so further than to say that by its light I saw the 
wisdom, that in the olden time prohibited flesh as food, I came to understand 
that flesh foods, with their close companions, beer, whiskey, tobacco, etc., 
are incompatable with a deep living piety; and why the old prophets and 
seers so often resorted to fastings, often for 40 days, as a means of spirit- 
ual illumination. I saw by the light of my experience why Daniel turned 
from the King's sumptuous table in loathing and from the flesh of animals 
"split in the hoof and that chewed the cud," and lived on a simple diet 
of pulse and water; and why the terms poluting, defiling abominations were 
so often applied to flesh foods in the Bible. At least two great branches of 
the church, one of them, the largest, numerically considered, realizes the im- 
portance of placing the appetites for flesh foods under the control of the will 
in their establishment of the season of Lent. And here allow me to say 
that the period of restraint from flesh foods in the primitive church, was not 
limited to forty days, but embraced the whole three hundred and sixty-five 
days of the year. 

Let him who would scoff at this season of restraint, try to abstain for 
rorty days from his chief article of food, to say nothing about going without 
food altogether, and realize for himself the amount of self-denial it involves. 
It means something to crucify the lusts of the flesh. But this endeavor to 
make the body a "fit temple for the Holy Spirit," brings its reward in a higher 
moral and spiritual culture that far more than compensates for the imaginary 
good that comes from the gratification of the appetite, which Soloman, after 
a lifetime spent in the indulgence of his animal instincts, characterized as 
"all vanity and vexation of spirit." 

Much more evidence might be presented to show conclusively that 
the Bible prohibits flesh as food, but enough has been presented to convince 
any reasonable mind of the truth of my hypothetical novelty, more would 
be superfluous. 

I now ask the attention of my readers to the direful effeets that 
flesh has had upon the MISSIONARY efforts in the "Land of the Rising 
Sun," and what the Foreign Missionary Society may reasonably expect, if 
all missionaries would solemnly resolve, as did Paul, to no more eat flesh 
lest it cause the Mongolians to stumble and fall. 

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56 THE HUMAN BODY 

from their dietary the chief stumbling block that now stands in the way 
of evangelizing the Orient would be consigned to oblivion. 

The Oriental priests made several charges against Christendom, one 
of which was that we were not as good as the Bible which prohibited flesh 
as food. 

I'm not surprised that the Asiatics after visiting a packing 
plant in Chicago, and noting its revolting scenes of blood and carnage, 
should say at the Congress of Religions, "your great slaughter houses are 
a curse and a shame to your civilization, and we do not want any such in 
the Orient. 

Mr.Darmapala said: "The conditions of your country are very different 
from those of ours, your missionaries eat flesh and seeing this no intelli- 
gent mongolian will accept their Christianity. 

Nera-sara-chan-ya said, in perfect English: "There is a custom in the 
Orient, deeply engraved and difficult to uproot; I mean their prejudice 
against animal food. So long as flesh eaters represent Christianity, so long 
it will have a stumbling block of huge dimensions in the way of evangeliz- 
ing Ihe Orient." 

Said another, "Our churches, vegetarian, conquered all Asia and made 
the Mongolians mild, peacable and well mannered. Slaughter houses were 
abolished and places where liquors were sold, were closed, but are now on 
the increase, because of Western Civilization that came with a Bible in one 
hand and. a bottle of whiskey in the other." 

Said another, "The people of the Orient look more to the lives of the 
preacher than his utterances; and when they find that the missionaries eat 
beef and pork and drink wine, which are the food and drink of the Asiatic 
outcasts, the high class, intelligent people of India class the missionaries 
with the low class scavengers." Since the advent of Western Civilization, 
drunkenness, debauchery, pauperism and insanity had increased in the same 
ratio as on the Western continent." 

Further said another, in part, that if the missionaries went to Asia 
in the spirit of the true Christ and taught the Essenean gospel as lived 
by him, divested of all that degrades and is defiling, like flesh eating, wine 
and beer bibling, etc., that the Land of the Rising Sun could be evangelized 
in twenty-five years; words of grave import and worthy of profound thought. 

Missionary effort has not been crowned with the harvest of souls, the 
vast expenditure of time, money and energy would anticipate. 

Have these Oriental priests given us the key to the situation? If 
as assumed, we as Christians are not as good as our book, it will be well 
for us to first pluck out the beam from our own eyes before attempting to 
pluck out the mote from our Oriental brother's eye. By its fruits, Western 
civilization must be judged. 

It was stated that the barque, Thomas Pope, steamed out of Boston 
harbor with seven missionaries on board, and 29,000 gallons of rum in hold 
for the same country. 



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With what result? Arch-deacon Jeffreys, after 30 years' observation 
in foreign missionary fields, said, "For every person truly converted to 
Christianity as a result of missionary effort, a thousand drunkards were 
made by the drinking customs of the American and English tourists and 
residents. 

How long will it take to evangelize the Eastern hemisphere at that 
rate? 

The exhortations of tbe apostle, Paul, are timely and meet the exegen- 
cies of the Asiatic problem. Coupled with the affirmation of the Oriental 
priest that if our missionaries abandoned flesh eating and went among them 
with the pure gospel as lived and taught by its founder, that then the great 
stumbling block in the way of evangelizing the Eastern hemisphere would 
be removed. 

The command, "Thou shalt not kill," is given a very much wider lat- 
itude than we of the Western hemisphere accord to it. We limit the mandate 
to man-slaughter; the Confucians, numbering 300,000,000, render the com- 
mand to mean, "Thou shalt not kill for food any thing that breathes the 
breath of life." 

The strict adherance of the Orientals to this rendering of the text 
was strikingly exemplified by their fidelity to the dietetic usages of their 
progenitors, as a religious duty, equalling that of the loyal Jews, during the 
period of their history called the "Great Persecution," in their heroic conduct 
during the great Sepoy war. The Sepoys had been forced by the British, by 
whom they were conquered, to serve in the army as soldiers. Army disci- 
pline was strictly enforced. The cartridge used was encased in tallow. The 
Sepoys, with a deep seated religious conviction that it was a sin of great 
enormity to have animal matter brought into contact with the lips even, 
with death staring them in the face, for insubordination, heroically chose 
death, rather than defile themselves by biting off the ends of the tallow-en- 
cased cartridges, and thousands upon thousands went to their deaths man- 
fully, rather than compromise their conscience by obeying the orders of their 
superiors. "Their conduct was a repetition of the Hebrew history during the 
reign of King Antiochus Epiphenes already refered to and worthy of emu- 
lation. » 

Paul's exhortations in the distant past have a bearing upon missionary 
effort that are pregnant with meaning. 

"Him that is weak in the faith, receive ye, but not to doubtful dispu- 
tations. For one believeth he may eat all things, another eateth herbs. Meat 
commendeth us not to God; for neither if we eat meat are we the better, 
neither if we eat not are we the worse. But take heed, that none of you 
put a stumbling block in his brother's way." Are we doing that in the land 
of the Orient. The priests at the Congress of Religions so charged and with 
telling effect. 

Further says Paul, "It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine. 



58 THE HUMAN BODY 

nor any of those things whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended." 

Impress those judicious admonitions of Paul upon all those who are 
volunteering to labor in Foreign Missionary fields, with a "Thus saith the 
Lord," emphasis, and I fully believe that the Oriental Missionary fields, 
white for the harvest, will yield results commensurate with the time, money 
and energy expended in the enterprise. 

Now I have given what seems to me to be proofs scriptural, in support 
of my assumption that the Bible is mandatory in its prohibition of flesh as 
food. You, my readers, are the jury. Ponder upon the evidence presented 
and if you see that my assumptions rest on a foundation of facts, then I 
hope you will, like Paul of old, resolve with God's help and the Holy Spirit's 
inspiration upon you, to ''eat flesh no more as long as the world standeth .lest 
you make those weak in the faith to offend, stumble and fall." 



FURTHER COMMENTS ON SAUL. 
WHEREIN WAS THE SIN THAT LED TO HIS DETHRONEMENT? 

Was it in not utterly destroying the Amalakites, or was it a palpable 
disobedience of the command, "Flesh shall man not eat?" I assume it was 
the latter. 

Back of the Israelites' disobedience in falling upon the spoils taken 
from the Amalakites, was an antecedent one, that was clamoring for a king 
to rule over them like other nations. To their clamorings Jehovah answered, 
"I alone am king, all sufficient for all your needs." He had promised if 
they were obedient to His just and righteous requirements that he would 
be to them a guide, a counselor, a great high priest, a Father and a God. 
But no, they still clamored for a king, even as their forefathers clamored for 
flesh in the wilderness. The results of their murmuring for flesh foods, in 
the wilderness was, Paul affirms, a hundred and twenty thousand deaths in 
one day from malignant catarrh. The result of their rebellion against 
Jehovah as their king was the loss of an innumerable host on the battle 
field, and the remainder taken prisoners and carried away to into Babylonish 
captivity ultimately. 

Saul was obsessed with "evil angels" as David termed them, and there 
is no doubt in my mind that the whole of Saul's army was obsessed by 
devils incarnate, when they flew upon the spoils of the Amalakites and did 
take the sheep, oxen and calves, and slew them upon the ground, and did 
eat them dripping with blood, as did the heathen round about them. 

Do we not find partial solution of the problem in the 78th Psalm? 

David, speaking of the rebellious Jews in the wilderness, said, "They 
tempted God in their lust by asking flesh to eat, therefore a fire was kindled 
against the rebels. Why? Because they believed not God, though He had 
opened the doors of heaven and had rained down MANNA upon them to 
eat. They did eat ''angels food." He sent them that to their full. He 



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caused an east wind to blow, He rained down upon them as dust, feathered 
fowl, quail, like as the sands of the sea. So they did eat and were well 
filled, for He gave them of their desire. They were not estranged from their 
lust, for while the flesh was yet between their teeth the evil angels came 
among them, and they slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen 
men of Israel." 

For all this they sinned still. When the evil angels slew them, 60,000 
in the month, they returned and inquired after God. Then, and not till then, 
they remembered that God was their rock and the high God their redeemer. 

Nevertheless they did flatter Him with their mouth, and lied unto Him 
with their tongues, for their heart was not right with God, neither were they 
steadfast in his covenants. But He being full of compassion forgave their 
iniquity and destroyed them not wholly; yea! many a time He remembered 
that they were but flesh, a wind passeth away. 

It was the evil angels that incited the rebels to lust after the flesh 
pots of Egypt, the land overrun with evil angels, to their final undoing as 
a nation. 

Now it is fair to assume that King Saul was dethroned, not because 
he failed to utterly destroy the Amalakites, but because of his disobedience 
to the command that prohibited the eating of flesh as food. This we can safely 
infer from Saul's own words and actions. When informed that the Israelites 
flew upon the spoils and did take calves, sheep and oxen and slew them upon 
the ground, and did eat live flesh dripping with blood, following the example 
of the heathen, he acknowledged that the people had sinned, and immediately 
sought to make amendments for the violation of the law. 

The law was explicit in its instructions that animals selected for sac- 
rifices should be slain upon an alter in decorum, and with a priest in attend- 
ance, and only on special occasions, feast days, passovers, etc., corresponding 
to the sacrament of the Lord's supper which occurs only at long intervals 
with some Christians. 

Unmindful of the law, the Israelites flew upon the spoils in the manner 
described. Then Saul was reminded of his sin in omitting to build an alter, 
and at once set about the work of doing something to remedy the evil done 
by his sin of omission. The history reads that he ordered stones to be brought 
and an alter built. Then he commanded every man to bring in his ox and his 
sheep and lay them on the alter, and strictly obey the requirements of the 
statute regulating burnt offerings. 

But that did not palliate his crime or release Saul from the penalty 
of his neglect. He pleaded guilty to the charge made by Samuel, and pleaded 
with him to entreat the Lord in his favor but without avail. The answer of 
Samuel was, "Because thou hast rejected the commandment of the Lord, he 
hath also rejected thee from being king." Now the theology that has come 
down to us from the dark ages, assumes that it was disobedience of the com- 
mand to "utterly destroy the Amalakites," that constituted Saul's crime. 



6u THE HUMAN BODY 

But did Saul fail on that point? He confessed to a disregard of the prohib- 
itory law in regard to the use of flesh as food, but to the other charge 
of saving the women and children of the Amalakites, he vehemently claimed 
that he had done as commanded. 

The disobedience then centered in the saving of the spoils and taking 
the sheep and oxen, and slaughtering them for food when hungry. 

The sheep and the oxen were "cloven footed and chewed the cud," 
permissible, it is assumed, under the statute as food. Where then was 
the crime of flying upon the spoils, and eating flesh in the manner described? 
There is but one explanation that carries weight, and that is the law prohib- 
iting flesh as food had been trampled upon to an extent that it was a sin of 
great enormity, and could not be lightly regarded. 

We will suppose for the sake of the argument that the commandment 
to utterly destroy the Amalakites round about Gilgal, was Saul's great crime 
and merited the punishment meted out to him, how can we reconcile such a 
mandate of Jehovah, with another of His formulating, "Thou shalt not kill?" 
Is it possible, or probable, that Jehovah, a being of infinite intelligence and 
withal assumed to be immutable, one who sees the end of all things from 
the beginning, should make a decalogue law, worded: ''Thou shalt not kill," 
and then violate the law of His own making, and then wreak vengence on 
Saul, as His instrument, for violating it? Perish the thought. 

If it was just to dethrone Saul for disobeying the command, "Thou 
shalt not kill," and the lawmaking power was behind Saul to instigate 
the slaughter, then was not the LAWGIVER a particeps criminis with Saul, 
and himself merited dethronement for a wholesale violation of the command, 
Thou shalt not kill?" Is that logic? 

It is in evidence that the Orientals in Saul's time and previous, gave to 
the commandemnt a much wider latitude than is generally attributed to it. 
They interpreted it to mean "Thou shalt not kill for food any thing that ever 
breathed the breath of life." 

In Saul's disobedience there was a tripple crime. He disregarded the 
commandment, "Thou shalt not kill" thy fellow man and further thou 
"shalt not kill for food anything that ever breathed the breath of life." 

The whole of the moral law is summed up in the scripture text: 
"What more doth thy God require of thee than to deal justly, love mercy and 
walk humbly before thy God." 

Paul gives us a condenced statement of both the law and the gospel 
in the words, "Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery; thou 
shalt not bear false witness; thou shalt not covet — if there be any other law, 
he says it is briefly comprehended in this: thou shalt love thy neighbor as 
thyself. Love worketh no evil to the neighbor, therefore love is the ful- 
filling of the law." 

What was the standard of justice in vogue during King Saul's reign? 
Was it the Golden Rule of Moses ordaining? If so, was it living up to its 
requirements in the conduct of Saul's army in utterly destroying the Amal- 



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akites, men, women and children? Evidently the eye for the eye, and tooth 
for a tooth, and blood for blood regime was dominant, such as "evil angels" 
might impel Saul and his army to resort to, but a righteous God, never. 

Ezekiel sets up a standard more in harmony with the Golden Rule, 
namely, "If a man is just, and doeth that which is lawful and right, and hath 
not oppressed any, but hath given his bread to the hungry and clothed the 
naked with a garment, and hath executed true judgment between man and 
man hath kept all my statutes to DO them, including the one, 'thou shalt not 
kill,' he is just, he shall surely live,' saith the Lord." 

Christ is on record as saying: "It is written, an eye for an eye and a 
tooth for tooth and blood for blood; but I say unto you, love your enemies, 
do good to them that hate you and persecute you, and pray for them that 
despitefully use you." Did he practice what he preached? Go with me to 
Calvary, and there learn the lesson of his Godlike forgiveness of his mur- 
derers. Taunted, jeered, spit upon, a crown of thorns plaited for his head, 
a sword thrust into his side and sneeringly told if thou be the Christ, come 
down from the cross. He saved others, himself he cannot save, etc. Amid 
all this noise, confusion and strife, up goes that sublime prayer of the cross, 
'Father forgive them, they know not what they do." 

How any one with the least vestage of the Christlike spirit of forgive- 
ness of enemies can reconcile the statement that a merciful God, who pitieth 
his wayward children as a father pitieth even prodigal sons and runs and 
meets them and falls upon their necks and kisses them, and welcomes them 
home with music and dancing; assuring us that there is more joy in heaven 
over one sinner that repenteth than over 99 that need no repentance, and who 
taught the doctrine of non-resistance to all evil, could command Saul to go 
and utterly destroy the Amalakites, men women and children is past my com- 
prehension. Let us no more talk about God's immutability, that he's "the 
same yesterday, today and forever;" if in the same personality we find 
the two extremes of character, the one all love, forbearance, charity and for- 
giveness; the other vindictiveness, hatred and revenge. We might expect to 
"evil angels" the aggregate of whom is appropriately named the Devil, 
Satan, the Father of Liars, etc., to do this, God never. I think it is safe to 
assume; that as it was "evil angels" that incited the rebels in the wilderness 
to rebel against the manna, angels food as David named it, and who slew one 
hundred and twenty-five thousand of the partakers of the forbidden flesh 
foods in the wilderness, which slaughter has been attributed to Him who went 
before his "chosen" as the pillar of fire by night and the pillar of cloud by 
day." 

Says David, "He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them 
drink as out of the great depths. He brought streams also out of the rocks 
and caused waters to run down like rivers." 

But the record says the wrath of God came upon them, and slew the 
fattest of them and smote down the chosen men of Israel. The very same 
Psalm says that it was "evil angels" that smote down in death the one 



62 THE HUMAN BODY 

hundred and twenty thousand in one day. If that be a truth as David 
affirms, why say God smote the rebels in the manner and to the extent 
named? Let God be justified, although men be proved liars. 

Let us separate the chaff from the wheat and render unto God the things 
that are God's, and to Satan, the things that are Satan's. 

Good and evil, God and the Devil, won't mix. They are as divergent 
as the poles. 

In closing the first book of this treatise, allow me to suggest that we 
leave "the dead past to bury its dead" and marshal all our forces and energies 
to lay the foundation of the "Church Triumphant," a non-carnivorant, fed- 
erated church based on the communistic idea as formulated by the loyal 
Jehovians, exemplified in the FRATERNAL lives of the Esseneans, repeated 
in history on our continent in the community life of the Incas, of South 
America. Beyond such a civilization, nothing can pass. It is the absolute 
religion; the religion of gods and high-raised angels. When all the world 
accepts the BROTHERHOOD idea in church relations, taught and lived by 
Jesus of Nazareth, we will approximate to the good time coming, portrayed 
by a modern seer in the words: "I see a race without disease of flesh or brain, 
shapely and fair, the married harmony of face, form and function, and as I 
look, life lengthens, joy brightens; love canopies the earth, and over all the 
great dome shines the eternal star of human hope; when the hangman, the 
headsman, and prison keeper, withdraw and become useless, relics of a semi- 
barbarous age. In that age I see no axe or rope upon the scaffold, the blood- 
stains have all been washed away by the sweet dews and rains of Celestial 
love. In that day RIGHT, not MIGHT, shall sway the sceptre. I see war 
vessels that composed the Pacific Squadron rusting in the- harbors; I see 
vines clamber and flowers bloom on arsenals and forts. I hear the bugles call 
a truce along the blood stained front of war; I see battle flags furled and put 
away from sight. I see soldiers return to their firesides, farms and shops; 
I see a- race of brothers. I see men and angels talk face to face as in the 
olden time. I see an age of the Golden Rule of conduct, and over all I see 
the white wings of the angel of peace who once hovered over the 'Babe in 
Bethlehem,' reiterating in jubilant song of praise the old time greeting, 'Peace 
on earth, good will to man.' " 



BOOK SECOND 



PHYSIOLOGICAL AND THEOLOGICAL 



INFINITE WISDOM AT THE HELM, WHEN IT PROHIBITED FLESH 

AS FOOD FOR MAN. 

Iii the general economy of our physical being, TASTE is, of all the 
senses, the most likely to be perverted. Eating and drinking is a favorite 
recreation everywhere. To eat much and talk over much about eating 
is to be in the swim of fashion. People who forget their stomachs in the 
pursuit of knowledge, or a higher moral and spiritual culture, are quite 
likely to be sneered at as visionaries, dreamers. And yet this practice of 
constantly pandering to perverted tastes, is one, if not the most prolific, 
source of mental imbecility, moral obliquity, and physical degeneracy. No 
one of the senses has furnished half so many occasions for the violation of 
all that pertains to the spiritual, moral, mental and physical health, as this 
ones; nor is there one among them all whose dominion over human nature 
is at once so degrading. Considering how much the happiness and welfare 
of humanity depends upon the soundness and precision of its MORAL and 
RELIGIOUS views, and not forgetting the ever-increasing control that 
SCIENTIFIC PROOF exerts over the masses of men; my reader will pardon 
me, if I add a chapter, elucidating the wisdom of the Great PHYSIOLOGIST 
of all physiologists in decreeing: "FLESH SHALL MAN NOT EAT." I 
shall endeavor to show, beyond a peradventure, that the prevailing skepticism 
as to the superior claims of PLANT FOODS, and the "NO BREAKFAST" 
plan, is compatible only with the most incorrigible indifference, and mournful 
destitution of all knowledge, scriptural and scientific, on a subject of the 
most vital importance. 

The beloved Apostle, writing to Gaius, whom he loves in the truth, 
greets him thus: "Beloved; I wish above all things that thou mayest pros- 
per, and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." 

Commenting on this text, George F. Penticost, the well known evan- 
gelist of London, England, says: "Spiritual prosperity and health, which John 
takes for granted in his salutation to his beloved Gaius, is cerainly the highest 
blessing attainable on this earth; but John prays that this great blessing 
may be matched by another, namely: the health of the body." 

Bodily health is certainly desired by all men and women, especially 
by those who have suffered from impairment of physical strength. For the 
most part, health is desired as the principal factor in our earthly enjoyment, 
and for the sake of earthly gain. But the Christian ought to desire health 
of body for the higher reason that he can serve God more efficiently. 



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MAN A TRINITY. 

Man, like his Creator, is a triune being. How well does the Apostle 
describe man's three-fold nature. He teaches in a few words how direct 
retribution in their bodily sufferings is measured out to those who yield to 
indulgencies, when he describes the wrong-doer, as one who "sins against 
his own body." Much more comprehensive than any meta-physical subtilty 
of modern times, is the physiological view which the Apostle takes of the 
human body when he names it the "Temple of the Living God." He might 
have added, a "Volume of Divine Revalations." Too many, I regret to say, 
do not aspire to make "the Harp of a Thousand Strings" such a dwelling 
place, but ignorantly convert it into a locomoting pig-pen; beer barrels; 
smoke house; opium joint, tea and coffee sepulchers, etc. 

I assume that pure food makes pure blood, leading to healthy tissues, 
healthy will, healthy conscience, health of the body in its entirety. 

I lay that down as a fundamental principle; as a sequence we should 
hail with delight any practice that will enable us to enrich the blood. 

The packing house outputs, vividly portrayed by Upton Sinclair, in his 
"Jungle," do not and cannot make blood that is in the least conducive to 
the best results, physically, mentally, morally or spiritually. Bright eyed, 
rosy cheeked religion is the need of the day, and the road to its acquisition 
is through physical perfection as near as possible. It is now recognized that 
the body and spirit are one, and when we thrill one with joy or sorrow, we 
thrill the other. 

Now I assume that there is no difference in man's environments in 
this age differing from those of the time when the Judean Prophet and 
Healer walked the plains of Gallilee on his mission, engaged much of the 
time in casting out "unclean spirits" from gaderenes and magdalenes. Ob- 
sessions are as rife today as in the long ago, and they are the potent factors 
of much of the sickness, contentions, strifes, wars, gluttony and drunkenness, 
divorces, etc., that are fast hurling our nation to the same doom that over- 
took the ante-deluvians and later Egypt, Babylon and Rome. 

In view of this, we might as well recognize the fact that there are 
two mighty fortresses in the "Volume of Divine Revelations," the heart 
and the liver. The former the fortress of the virtues; the latter the fortress 
of the furies, or "unclean spirits." Flesh-eating nations are abundantly 
supplied with fetalling, vampire spirits, that like barnacles on a ship's bot- 
tom, sadly interfere with our volition. They rule us for weal or woe. Our 
own conduct will reveal to us, and to others, whether good or evil spirits 
sway the sceptre in this tabernacle of flesh. 

We may have our heads filled with all intellectualities, and our ears 
with all musical appreciation, and the mouth with all eloquence, and the 
hand with all industries, and the heart with all generosities; and yet have 
furies in the liver, if flesh enters into one's dietary. Why? Because we 
are paying the penaly for disobedience of the command: 'Flesh shall man 
not eat.." The promise of the Holy Spirit is conditional: 



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"If ye do whatsoever I command you, then my Father will love you, 
and we will come and take up our abode with you." What is the penalty 
for disobedience? "I will set my face against you, and when you fold your 
hands to make many prayers, I will not hear you." It is better to "obey 
than to pray," with your stomachs filled to repletion with all kinds of in- 
compatibles all in a ferment. To thus defile the body is a sin of great 
enormity. Said Paul, "Know ye not that your bodies are temples of Spirit," 
both good and evil, he might have added. 

Jesus said: "Ye are all heirs and joint heirs with me, in all the wealth 
of the Father's love;" and again he said: "The kingdom of heaven is within 
you" — and he might have added, the kingdom of hell, also. 

Couple these statements with the Creator's, that He created man in 
his own image; in the express image of himself; and further, "I will write 
my lav/ in their hearts, and put it in their inward parts," and we have 
links in a chain, showing that we are each and all embryo gods, having 
within ourselves all the seminal principles of all the greatness, grandeur, glory, 
wisdom and love pertaining to the Almighty Father, with an eternity stretch- 
ing out before us in which to unfold into the likeness of our Divine original. 

The Great Physiologist has written "His law in our hearts and put it 
in our inward parts"; then it follows that our bodies are volumes of Divine 
Revelations, as much so as revelations written on "tables of stone" or in a 
book. The difference between those who aspire to become filled with the Holy 
Spirit and the "Anointed One" is not of kind, but of degree. 

The receiving and containing vessel of inspiration, known as the Nazer- 
rene, was BORN right, and after birth was kept in "sanctification and honor;" 
conc-equently the "water of life" dispensed through that vessel was pure as 
crystal, approximately as pure as its fountain head. 

The Creator cannot put pure water into a filthy vessel and have it re- 
tain its purity, hence the necessity of keeping the vessel pure. 

For this reason, I assume that pork and piety won't mix; one represents 
the virtues, tr e oilier the furies. 

The manifestations of the poyer of the spirit, or the virtues, will always 
be in the ratio of the largeness and purity of the receiving vessel. The inti- 
mate at-one-ment of the human with the Divine will be exactly in the ratio 
that self is crucified, thus making room for the self of all selfs, or God. Little 
do we comprehend, many of us, when we pray "Our Father who art in heav- 
en," that the heaven is within us if we keep the commandments; and that the 
being addressed is enthroned in the "inner sanctuary, the holy of holies" 
within our bodies, if we do not make a pig-pen of it. 

To me it is a sublime thought, and "worthy of all acceptation," that we 
are each and all embryo gods, made only a "little lower than the angles," and 
that we can say in all sincerity with the Mesiah, "I and my Father are one"; 
that we are each all heirs, and joint heirs with the "Great Elder Brother" in all 
the wealth of the Father's love. It is this sublime thought that inspires me 



66 THE HUMAN BODY 

to a life of holiness, wholeness, a life worthy of my high parentage, and to 
sway the sceptre of righteousness in this little realm of matter and mind, as 
becometh a child of a king, who is "King of Kings and Lord of Lords." 

Now there are many ways by which we can defile our bodies, but for an 
Introduction to what follows I will speak of the defilement that comes from 
gluttony. There are hundreds and thousands of men, estensibly good men and 
women, who hourly invite the furies of the liver to come and take up their 
abode in the kitchen department of the "house not made with hands" by ex- 
cesses in eating and drinking, bad cooking, etc. The demoralizing effects of 
fish foods, especially shell fish, has been forcibly elucidated by a German 
scientist, and all that he says in regard to fish I assume applies to ALL flesh 
foods. 

I repeat that a person's dietary, if he or she is blessed with a sound 
mind in a sound body, determines whether that person shall be an Apollo in 
beauty of face and symetry of form; a Samson in strength; a Daniel in clean- 
ness and vigor of mental perception; Peter's speaking with tongues of fire; 
or numbered among those to whom Jesus referred when he told his disciples, 
who had risen superior to the appetites and passions: "Greater works than 
these shall ye do, because I go to my Father." 

The "Crucifixion of the lusts of the flesh" is mandatory, but seldom is 
ic obeyed. Doctrines, rather than sound lives, is the ruling sentiment of the 
majority of religionists, overlooking the fact that sound doctrines must be the 
product of sound living. If we live right then the promise is: "Ye shall know 
of the doctrines whether they be of God or no." 

Statistics show that the United States is fast going down in declension; 
that crime, insanity, idiocy and pauperism are increasing with fourfold greater 
rapidity than the increase of population. McClure's magazine, a short time 
since, stated that as a nation we were only one remove from Russia in crime, 
poverty, insanity and general wickedness. And Russia, it is assumed, was the 
most degraded nation of the two hemispheres. 

The world is lacking in a single historical fact, to show that a nation by 
mere patching, has been able to survive the loss of its religious and moral 
life, and our republic builds a phantom fortress on a sandy foundation if it 
deludes it self with the vagery that it is especially immune from the penalties 
of disobedience that have befallen other nations. The Supreme Ruler is not 
a patcher up of old garments. He does not "put new wine into old bottles," for 
reasons specified in the scriptures. When an empire or city becomes a satur- 
nalia of crime, like Rome, He calls an imperative halt and decrees, in a voice 
full of meaning and to be obeyed: "Cut it down." 

The immutable laws of God make no distinction as to kindred, tribe or 
tongue — notably the ante deluvians — and the mysterious hand that wrote the 
doom of an empire in the handwriting on the walls of Balshazzer's palace, still 
holds the sceptre of destiny over all principalities and powers of darkness, 
including the "trusts." 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 67 

Their "day of judgment" has overtaken them, and called an imperative 
halt on their suicidal policy, and brought them face to face with the everlast- 
ing decree, which in stentorian tones like the "thunder blasts of Sinai," says 
in words pregnant with meaning: "Sow to the wind and you'll reap the whirl- 
wind." 

Many of the political "wolves in sheeps clothing," like the San Francisco 
grafters, are having forced home on their seared consciences, that God is not 
mocked, that He has not vacated his throne nor revised his laws, formulated 
and executed in infinite wisdom. 

This is the resurrection morn of American patriotism. It is rising as did 
its "Revolutionary sires," to the demands of the times and occasion. It has 
buckled on the armor for an agressive warfare against the enemies of right- 
eousness, realizing that it behooves them to watch diligently after the purity, 
sincerity and vigor of the nation's physical, mental and religious wel- 
fare. 

The people are learning that facts in history conclusively show that 
nations that have said, like the fool, there is no God, have alienated them- 
selves from their religious institutions — the nursing mother of a true civili- 
zation, have declined in glory, have grown corrupt, barbarous and cruel. 
Rome in the time of Nero became a maelstrom of savagery, a saturnalia of 
vice. In those days it was fashionable to mock at religion, and revile the 
faith once delivered to the saints. The wives and daughters of the most dis- 
tinguished citizens danced naked in public with male debauchees. Poisoning 
and suicides were classed with the fine arts. The populace clamored for car- 
nivals of blood and applauded while helpless human beings were devoured by 
savage dogs or torn to pieces by wild beasts. 

If the reader will turn back the historic page but a hundred years he 
will get some faint idea of the effects of the non-conformity to the teachings 
and practices of the Primitive church, the disciples of which manifested in 
their lives the beatitudes, found in the "sermon on the mount." France was 
afflicted with an acute atheistical paroxysm when it was dragging its fairest 
women to the guillotine, and cutting off their heads to make a hoodlum holi- 
day; when it was butchering helpless prisoners by the hundreds for no other 
purpose, apparently, than to supply the tanneries she had established at Men- 
don with human hides. On other occasions the officials filled barges with 
women and children for the same purpose and sunk them in the presence of 
the populace on gala days; while the onlookers howled with delight along the 
river banks. To escape such tyranny in Europe the "Pilgrim fathers" sought 
the hospitable shores of the Western continent, where they could worship 
God in accordance with the dictates of their own conscience, with none to 
molest or make them afraid. The very foundations of society were broken 
up; it was chaos come again during the "reign of terror" when France was 
insulting, imprisoning and murdering her priests, scoffing at religion, and 
crowning a courtezan as "Goddess of Reason" at Notre Dame. 



68 THE HUMAN BODY 

FLESH FOODS AND ALCOHOLIC STIMULANTS THE INCENTIVES. 

A scientist, one Anton Seigafritz, of Gorlitz( Germany, after making 
extended investigations into the dietetic habits of different nations and peoples 
(under the auspices of the German government), more than hints that the 
carnivorant habits of the Romans in the time of Nero was the underlying 
cause of the blood thirsty ferociousness that culminated in moral degrada- 
tion without a parallel in history, with perhaps the one exception of Sodom 
and Gomorroh. 

This scientist writes: "I have discovered that indulgence in fish is by 
no means safe. I have observed a distinct and positive tendency in shell fish, 
when eaten, to induce emotional insanity, or at least. a transitory, unheralded 
species of frenzy. 

"While investigating the culture of the oyster, and its effects on the 
physical and mental system, in all parts of the world, it was among the fisher- 
men of Ostend that I first suspected that a peculiar action of the cerebrum 
might be induced by the use of fish foods. It occurred to me that the fish- 
women the world over have a peculiarly irascibility of temper, a strange 
disposition to quarrel, and a singular readiness and fluency in the use of foul 
language. 

"I have seen strokers, coal heavers and stevedores in England, after 
eating a dozen oysters or two, suddenly transformed from men into wild 
beasts. I have seen peaceful Normandy peasants, after a score of oysters, 
shake off their native lethargy and become infuriated ruffians. 

"In New York, pursuing my studies upon the wharves and markets, I 
had frequent occasions to note the violent accessions of frenzy following a 
large consumption of bi-valves. 

"The increasing frequency of suicides in the United States is an estab- 
lished fact. During my investigations there I was able to trace a lot of 
felo-de-se in many instances to emotional insanity, induced by excessive 
oyster eating. I have given much time and research to this subject, and am 
strongly inclined to attribute the great excess of madness which prevailed 
in the first centuries of the Roman empire, and manifested in the wildest 
extravagance of luxury, and the elevation of suicide into an heroic act, to the 
great passion for oysters which had seized upon the people." 

Had the professor gone a step further and attributed the saturnalia of 
sensuality to an excess of flesh foods I do not think he would have made a 
wide departure from the truth. The finer distinctions of one class of flesh 
foods and another has never been made the topic of close scientific investiga- 
tion. The German scientist has approximated a little nearer the goal than any 
of his contemporaries. It is to be hoped that the investigation instituted by 
the German government into the qualities of fish foods may be extended to 
other kinds of foods, to the end that science and religion may have definite 
information as to the effects of foods on the moral and spiritual nature of man. 

I have stated on good authority that the United States is in declension. 



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WHAT IS THE REMEDY? 

First ,to point out the causes, hold them up to the gaze of the multitude, 
venture an analysis, and suggest remedies. What is the cause and what the 
remedy? 

The rapid growth of the trusts is an alarming malady, and it can be 
cured only by a quickening of the national conscience and strengthening of 
the moral integrity of the people. 

Ever since the exposure of the criminal greed that fed embalmed beef 
to American soldiers, the Meat Trust of the country has been steadily held 
up to public execration. The following sworn statement was made by Theo- 
dore Roosevelt in the court of enquiry appointed to investigate the embalmed 
beef of the Spanish war, supplied to our army and navy by packing houses of 
Chicago, and upon which the "boys in blue" laid violent hands and threw 
overboard. Said Roosevelt: "The so-called roast beef is almost as devoid of 
nourishment as so much rope. It is merely the fibre of the meat, from which 
the juice has been extracted to make "extract of beef." If, however, this was 
the limit, it would not be so bad, as the boys might make a shift and fill up on 
hard tack and beans." 

"The worst of it is that so much of the food that is sent out from these 
packing houses is not only lacking in food value, but is exceedingly filthy, 
It was utterly and hopelessly unacceptable. The cans when opened would 
show, usually, what looked like a layer of slime, a very disagreeable looking 
substance. The beef inside was stringy and course. It was like a bundle of 
fiber; sometimes we could not stew it. The majority of the boys when put 
upon it would become sick in a few days with all sorts of bowel troubles." 

If one hundredth part of what has been stated along the line of food 
adulteration by packers is true, made under oath by such witnesses as the 
President of the United States, then it ought to be sufficient evidence to send 
the packers to Hades, or at least to shut them up where they could have 
access to nothing in the shape of food but their own vile products. 

Since the Upton Sinclair expose of the beef trust, the biggest meat 
trust in American history has been formed. This includes all the big concerns 
of Chicago and Omaha, and has a capitalization of a half billion of dollars. It 
has cut out all competition, specified the zones in which each establishment 
shall trade, and consults none but its own corporate interests, fixing the 
prices of meat. It controls business worth a million dollars a day. 

By maintaining a lobby at Washington during a session of congress, 
the trust amended the legislated reform so that the packers have prevented 
the successful importation of competing meats from Europe. Thus the trust 
has its hands upon the throats of the consumer. Now the news comes that 
on account of the crusade against diseased meats, the Beef Trust, to make up 
for the loss, will continue to advance the price of meats throughout America. 
In the face of this packing house conspiracy, the newspapers are talking loud 
and long against the pessimism that everywhere manifests itself in the 
"what's the use" attitude of so many that know the packers have the United 



fiL THE HUMAN BODY 

States Senate legislating against the people and in favor of the trusts. 

A hog of the genus homo was recently paid $10,000,000 for merging the 
meat packers into one gigantic trust. Who pays that $10,000,000? The con- 
sumers of flesh. These pachydermatous mammals have become our masters. 
They consolidate under the name of "trust" and make labor subservient to 
their greed. Well have they been likened to the octopus, and named the 
"devil fish." They manipulate the workingmen of the country just as expert 
chess players manipulate the figures on the chess board. They are the power 
behind the throne. They have seized the reins of state and national govern- 
ment; they purchase legislatures just as the Beef Syndicate purchases cattle. 
They control elections by subscribing fabulous sums of money for election 
purposes. 

There is scripture evidence to show that "evil angels" can obsess hogs. 
If they could do so in any age, they can in this. It does not require a great 
stretch of credulity on my part to conclude that the "Board of Trade" rooms 
which I have visited, dominated by the "trust" element, are the resort of 
"Beef Trust gaderenes." 

"Among them you daily see scenes that paralyze description, and are 
beyond the imagination of anyone who has never looked on. It is a species 
of emotional frenzy, the nursing mother of "frenzied finance." What snapping 
of fingers and thumbs; wild gesticulations, and raving like hyenas, swaying 
lO and fro like wild buffalos, foaming at the mouth and jostling one another. 
"Boards of Trade" are, as a rule, veritable pandemoniums. It is safe to say 
that all these gaderenes are FLESH eaters. If Anton Siegafritz had extended 
his researches into the domain of the MORAL effects of flesh foods generally, 
I think he would have come to the conclusion that the substitution of the 
words "flesh foods" for "fish foods" would cover the ground of emotional 
insanity without doing violence to his assumptions. I base the assumtion on 
the following facts: 

It is well known that the fiercest, most savage people in the world are 
the cannibals, and those nearest approximating them are the tribes who eat 
flesh raw or nearly so. The carnivorant animals like the lion and tiger are 
the most ferocious and blood thirsty; the herbivorants are their opposites. 

Some time since I interviewed a trainer of bull dogs. In answer to my 
question, "What do you feed them to make them savage?" he answered "mus- 
cle beef." Feed the bulldog on a non-carnivorant diet exclusively and his 
fighting qualities will be conspicuous by their absence. 

Oliver Cromwell, impressed with the fact that the food we eat had 
much to do with the mental and moral status of men, in order to test the foods 
best adapted to fire the fighting qualities of his soldiers, fed a garrison exclu- 
sively on muscle beef, with the result of proving that the garrison to a man 
were devils incarnate on the field of battle. Proud of his discovery he named 
them "Johnny Bulls" because of their bulldog fierceness and tenacity. 

Here then are substantial facts that conclusively show that the flesh 
of animals that "chew the cud and are cloven footed" are productive of vicious 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 71 

tempers, on a par with the fish foods, and their tendency in that direction 
shows the wisdom of the Supreme Ruler in prohibiting their use as food. 

Close up the saloons and butcher's shops and divorce courts will soon 
be consigned to oblivion. 



SYMETRY OF FORM AND BEAUTY OF FACE A GLORY TO THE CREATOR 

That irritable tempers are antagonistic to beautiful complexions is no 
longer, debatable. Overfeeding, ordinarily results in an acid stomach, or a 
dart through the liver, or both. 

A sour stomach and a torpid liver sours the temper, yellows the eye- 
balls and the cuticle, and jaundice of mind and body follows. 

The woman who lets every little trial disturb the equilibrium of mind 
and body is daily scoring a new wrinkle on her face, and spirit also, for the 
former is a reflection of the latter. 

The primary items of danger to the complexion in the ordinary menu 
of flesh foods are not difficult to describe. The complexion becomes florid, as 
does that of the wine bibber. The skin becomes chronically congested, as does 
that of the inebriate; the cuticle coarsens, and in time produces the tawny, 
closmic spots that follows a long continued indulgence in the use of tea, coffee, 
etc. Plant food converts affirm that any woman, be her skin so faulty that 
she seeks the services of a "beauty doctor," who will faithfully try Daniel's 
dietetics, will speedily observe an augmentation of her charms of skin color- 
ing auu texture to the extent that she will no more look with longing eyes on 
the "flesh pots," for the change will make the brilliant complexion more fas- 
cinating, while the muddy one is cleared to a surprising extent. 

Not only women of naturally vitriolic tempers, but those whose emo- 
tions are well under control, are finding out that the straight road to glorify 
God is by a "crucifixion of the lust for flesh foods." In short, follow Daniel's 
example. 

That simple regime means clearer heads, cooler blood, subordinated 
tempers, a normal equipoise of brain and brawn, complexions as fair as the 
lily, tinged with the bloom of health, soft and rosy; and last but not least the 
moral and spiritual result will be the building up of mansions in the soul to 
the extent that each and all can realize by a joyous experience the import 
of the words: "The kingdom of heaven is within you," and collectively realize 
an answer to the prayer of the ages: "Thy kingdom come," and the fulfillment 
of the sweet prophecy of a "Divine kingdom on earth." 

It will be well to bear in mind the fact that in his entirety man in a 
sense can be a double like the "Siamese Twins," and as a sequence, when the 
one is thrilled with joy or sorrow the other is thrilled in the same manner 
and to the same extent. It therefore follows that the discomforts of a gas 
distended stomach extends to the moral and spiritual nature as well. With 
what result? Lassitude follows over-feeding, as in undue indulgence in strong 
drink. The temperature falls as far below the normal standard as it was 
raised above during the period of exaltation. It is during the period of reac- 



72 THE HUMAN BODY 

tion, or rising temperature, that lightning streaks of ugly temper makes 
lurid the moral atmosphere of the victim of lustful desire. All such, like the 
inebriate repents and re-repents, resolves and re-rseolves, and at the next 
dinner sin again against their own bodies. Thus they, day by day, allow the 
liver furies "to hound out the seraphs, leaving a 'Tower of Babel' discord 
within. 

What is the remedy for the evils that every where abound? 

Withhold patronage from the butcher shops and the beef trust and 
saloons will die a natural death, without having to be amputated by the 
surgical knife of state and national legislation. 

The trusts are the dominating power in our legislative halls, I concede, 
but they cannot compel any one to eat hog or beef. If the nation at large 
would rise up in the dignity of its manhood and say, as did Paul of old, "I 
will no more eat flesh," then the devil fish must relax its grasp on the 
Nation's throat. If the Nation so wills, the "beef trust" must cease its 
suicidal policy — cease by limitation, cease in the very nature of things. 



HOW TO PAY OFF CHURCH DEBTS. 

Several dozen women, members of the First M. E. Church in Chilli- 
cothe, Mo., have shown their devotion to their church in a unique manner. 
They have agreed to forego that article of dress so dear to the feminine 
heart — the Easter hat — in order that a church debt may be paid. 

A year ago the Ladies' Working Society of this church took upon 
itself a debt of $700 for the church, and the society has been at its wit's end as 
to the best means for raising it. Recently one of the society hit upon the 
plan of asking the members to put the money that they expected to spend 
for Easter bonnets into a fund to pay off the debt. 

Drawing up a list pledging its signers to such a promise, she first 
signed it and then took it to other members of the society. The proposition 
was a severe test on the loyalty of the women, but they were equal to the 
sacrifice. Many of them signed and thus agreed to give up the cash that 
would have been spent for a "Merry Widow" for the purpose of paying off 
that debt. 

The result is somewhat hard on the millinery stores, but it is quite 
gratifying to the church officers. The women are expected to go to church 
Easter Sunday bareheaded and show to the other members of the congre- 
gation who those are who made the sacrifice. 

Whether the brethren will arise to the occasion by giving up spring 
"derbies" for the same purpose remains to be seen. 



PREVENTION AND CURE OF DISEASE. 

I assume that it is just as much the province of the physician to prevent 
disease as to cure it, and I know of no means more potent to that end than 
Bible hygiene. Because I believe that the "ounce of prevention is worth a 
pound of cure;" because I see in the food question, with the physical culture 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 73 

annex, such vast possibilities for the regeneration of the race from weakness, 
misery and sin; and because I see in economy in expenditures for food sup- 
plies, a means of liberating many churches from financial embarrasment that 
interferes with their laudable endeavors for the regeneration of the race; 
I feel it a duty to do what I can to enlighten the public on the all important 
subject of "How to take care of the body." 

I assume that ninety per cent of all diseases that flesh is heir to come 
from over-indulgence in eating and drinking. Reduce the amount of food con- 
sumed daily by the average American two-thirds, and the people would not 
only be greatly benefitted in health, but in pocket. Although I am a plant 
food advocate, I admit that a man who is temperate in eating and drinking, 
even if his menu includes a little flesh, always 'excluding pork, would be 
healthier and happier than the man who gorges on plant foods, and is con- 
tinually worrying over the effects of the food he has gulped. 

That a properly selected diet of which flesh forms no part, is amply 
sufficient to maintain the highest degree of physical, mental and moral 
efficiency, is a fact which fifty years as a practicing physician and thirty 
years as a plant food consumer, exclusively, has proven in my own experience, 
and no candid investigator will think of disputing now-a-days. 

A large majority of the race who do the hardest work, always have 
been, and always will be, largely plant consumers. The Scotch, whose diet 
consists chiefly of oatmeal and milk; and the Irish, who live principally 
on potatoes and buttermilk, are an exceptionally hardy and healthy race. 

The porters of Constantinople, who trot along under a load that would 
stagger an Arizona mule, subsist on a frugal diet of black bread, figs and 
watermelon. A Mexican will run for days with scarcely a halt on a few pounds 
of maize. In Canada the main stay of the muscular lumbermen is dried peas 
and beans. In Japan a native will draw an adult person in a vehicle adapted 
to the purpose sixty miles per day, an ordinary days work, on three teacupsful 
of rice; and there is good authority for the statement that Tokio Indian 
drew an adult ninety miles per day on the same amount of the cereal. 

Nowhere in the world, with the one exception of England, is meat eaten 
three times a day, as it is commonly in the United States. Even England is 
evidently awakening to see her folly, for a large number, including King 
Edward, are advocating simple living, and what is still better, practicing it. 
Like King Soloman, King Edward has reached a point where he can say of a 
lustful life: "It is all folly and vexation of spirit." As a result of our prodi- 
gality in eating flesh foods, it can be truly said nowhere in the world is there 
anything like the same number of physicians, in proportion to the inhabitants; 
nowhere in the world is there such an enormous amount of proprietary medi- 
cines consumed, composed largely of a poor quality of whiskey, swelling the 
list of dypsomaniacs, and nowhere in the world are there so many complain- 
ing of stomach aberrations. We are a nation of dyspeptics, growing out of 
inordinate flesh eating, and patent medicine tippling. 



74 THE HUMAN BODY 

WHAT HAS THAT TO DO WITH CHURCH DEBTS? 

Much; the Bible states that "we cannot serve God and mammon." I 
assume further that we cannot serve God and our stomachs. We as a nation 
bend the knee to the Moloch of greed both for gold and the stomach's arbitrary 
demands for supplies, with which to pander to the lusts of the flesh. 

In view of the fact, my readers will pardon me if I add a chapter, ex- 
ploiting a feasible and practical means of relieving the body from the burden 
of caring for this avalanche of decomposing animal and vegetable matter, 
which engenders disease and a continual outlay of money for repairs; but 
also saps the very foundations of our religious institutions by withholding 
from them the means by which to successfully cope against sin, and the long 
train of evils that follow in its wake. 

That the burdens of church debts are heavy and grievous to be borne 
cannot be denied. They paralyze many of the well intended efforts of those 
who would gladly do their duty in rendering financial aid, but in view of the 
fact that they are handicapped, there are thousands who take the "What's the 
use" pose, and discouraged from the many calls for money throw the burdens 
of financiering on the more optimistic workers, and let them go ahead and 
bear the burdens ALL should help to carry. 

We must take church people like all others, just as we find them. Crit- 
icism of the delinquents will not pay debts; something else must be done. 
Oral prayers alone are not sufficient, they will not lift burdens of the charac- 
ter above mentioned. There must be some praying done by bending the 
back, praying with the pocketbook, etc. 

The commandment of a prayer hearing God is "Crucify the lusts of the 
flesh," for a hundred useless and pernicious articles of daily consumption, such 
as tea, coffee, wine, beer, tobacco, flesh foods, chewing gum, etc., which, if 
heeded, would leave a bank account sufficient for church expenditures without 
being felt. We as a nation are expending a million dollars per day for flesh 
foods, the prodigal use of which are positively harmful to body, soul and spirit; 
for every time we pander to the "lusts of the flesh" along that line we send 
out invitation cards to a host of unclean spirits, "evil angels," David names 
them; and they respond with alacrity to the invitation and swoop down upon 
their victims like vultures to a carcass. Hence the innumerable host of mod- 
ern gaderenes and magdalenes that everywhere abound. 

The slaughter house and saloon are the nursing mother of the thous- 
ands of obsessed individuals that fill our insane asylums to repletion; that 
make desolate homes, keep divorce courts vigorously active; in short they 
are the foster parents of every conceivable evil. 

The twin evils are the foes of the church, and their subordination to 
the righteous requirements of the Supreme Ruler of the universe is impera- 
tively demanded. Can the church at large, by a united effort, accomplish the 
task required at its hands? I answer most emphatically in the affirmative. 
How? By crucifying the lusts of the flesh for animal food and strong drink, 
primarily. Throttle the monster, the foes of our religious institutions, or it 



A VOLUME OP DIVINE REVELATIONS 75 

will throttle the nation, and consign America, the "Land of the free and the 
home of the brave," to the same oblivion that in the past overtook Babylon, 
Assyria, Egypt and Rome. 

All that is needed to accomplish the task of consigning the "Beef Trust' 
and its satelite, the saloon, to oblivion, is the self same sacrificing devotion 
to the just and righteous requirement of the "Great I Am," contained in both 
the Law and the Gospel, manifested by the martyrs at the time of the "Great 
Persecution" of the Jews by King Antiochus, Epiphenes; or Daniel and his 
companions, who voluntarily chose pulse and water to the flesh foods tempt- 
ingly set before them in profusion on the King's table, and the wines of the 
choicest vintage which they resolved should not pass their lips. 

The need in this crisis of affairs is the self same spirit that animated 
H'leazer, the priest, and the mother and her seven sons, who all chose death 
by the most excruciating tortures, rather than obey the mandates of the king 
to eat flesh. 

Are there any Daniels, Eleazers and loyal Jews and mothers of loyal 
Jews in this age? If so, "Dare to be Daniels." Be willing to make any sac- 
rifice for the good of humanity as was Jesus of Nazareth, who "had not place 
to lay his head." Let us no more sing "How I love Jesus" unless we manifest 
our love in the same manner and to the same extent that he did to down- 
trodden, sin-cursed humanity, for whom no sacrifice was too great. 

To the young lawyer who came to him with the question: "What shall 
I do to inherit eternal life?" he said: "Sell all that thou hast, and give to the 
poor, and then come and follow me." "Where?" "Into the highways and 
byways, cellars and garrets; everywhere wherever the 'lost sheep congregate, 
there go with me on a ministry of service to your fellow men." The young 
man went away sorrowful for he had great possessions. 

Did Jesus ask of the young lawyer any greater sacrifice than he him- 
self was willing to make for his beloved humanity? No. 

Then, is he asking too much of his disciples to crucify the lust for 
flesh foods, beer, wine and tobacco and devote the amount these worse than 
useless means of pandering to perverted appetites cost to relieving the 
churches from their burden of debt, that like a millstone around the neck is 
paralyzing many of the well intended efforts of his disciples, to plant the 
church on a foundation rock that is imperishable and indestructible, a glory 
to God and a joy to mankind. 

On the question of the importance of a non-carnivorant diet many good 
people do, and probably will for some time to come, entertain diverse opinions, 
but the use of alcohol as a beverage cannot by the most forced construction 
be classed with articles of food value; and yet it is only a short time since that 
alcohol was so classed; was championed as the Samson of the Materia 
Medica, and deemed indispensable in all wasting diseases, because of its 
assumed strength giving and sustaining power. 

That day is past, even the much lauded "beef tea" as a strength giver 
has been consigned to the oblivion of forgetfulness, with beer, wine, whisky, 



76 THE HUMAN BODY 

etc. In comparison as a strength giver, with water or Horlick's Malted Milk 
beef tea and alcohol in any form or under any disguise sinks into insignifi- 
cance. 

Further on I will present proofs of an experimental character, con- 
nected with my fast of forty days in New York on water only. 

That the use of intoxicants is a monstrous evil is generally conceded. 
The church is alive to the fact and is putting forth vigorous effort?; to curtail 
its power. The wide spread and growing anti-saloon sentiment attests that 
the only safe ground to occupy is to "touch not, taste not, handle not." But 
for all that the demoralizing influence of FLESfl foods as a promoter of the 
drink curse is seldom if ever touched upon bv temperance reformers, yet 1 
assume tbe relation is very intimate, one seldom exists independent of the 
other. 

Duiing my half century of professional life as a physician I have yet 
to find an abstainer from flesh foods afflicted v/th dypsomania. The late Dr. 
Leslie Keeley, the "Gold Cure" specialist for alcoholism, has without doubt 
been brought in touch with more inebriates, professionally, than a. L \f other 
man on this and trans-Atlantic continents. I once asked him if he ever during 
his professional career met with a case of alcoholism in a strict vegetarian 
or fruitarian? Pausing a moment, he answered with much interest: "No." 
Enquiring as to my motive in asking the question and pondering on my an- 
swer, he said: "Doctor, I believe you have struck the key note of the whole 
problem. If, as you logically assume, the flesh food blight underlies the per- 
nicious drink custom, then it is self evident that all the laudable endeavors 
of philanthropists along the line of temperance work have been aimed at 
effects, and not the cause." Further he said: "Agitate the matter from your 
view-point, and I believe that in time we shall see results commensurate with 
the time, money and energy expended in the enterprise." 

With that end in view, I affirm that the slaughter house and the saloon 
are the centers from which the devil and his wife formulate and execute their 
diabolical plans to enslave mankind to their lusts for flesh foods and strong 
drinks. 

The unholy alliance is truthfully presented as 
"A bar to manliness and wealth, 

A door to want and broken health; 

A bar to honor, pride and fame, 

A door to grief, sin and shame; 

A bar to hope, a bar to prayer, 

A door to darkness and despair; 

A bar to useful honored life, 

A door to brawling, senseless strife; 

A bar to all that's true and brave, 

A door that leads to the glutton's grave; 

A bar to joys that home imparts, 

A door to tears and severed hearts; 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 77 

A bar to health and peace as well, 
A bar to heaven, a door to hell." 

READER: 
God help you these BARS to fell, 
To the "rock," His church, haste to dwell 
Against that bar to vice you perhaps rebel, 
To what end, the "Just Judge" alone can tell. 
Be wise! Satan and his mate repel, 
From the bar and meat shop rush pell mell; 
Do not their list of victims swell; 
Bar their doors and break their spell; 
They're the open doors to a lusty hell, 
A charnel house of cadaverous smell. 



TOBACCO, A SCION OF THE SATANIC PAIR. 

Another of the evils that tends to our nation's declension, physically 
and morally, is tobacco. I have not the statistics at hand to show the annual 
expenditures for the vile weed in the United States, but thing it safe to as- 
sume that they are a close second to those of flesh food, or three hundred 
and sixty-five millions of dollars per annum. P. T. Barnum, during his lifetime, 
is credited with saying that the amount of money expended for tobacco in 
the United States, much of it burned up, would feed, clothe, house and well 
educate EVERY man, woman and child in the republic. 

Stop the prodigal waste of money for tobacco, and turn it into the 
treasury for the support of our religious institutions which alone are the bul- 
wark of our very imperfect civilization, and we would soon see the power 
of the "Gospel of peace, good will to man," to transform the wilderness and 
waste places of the earth into a garden of fresh and beautiful flowers, and 
arbor all the avenues of life with crysanthemums, yellow jessamines and 
honey suckels, figuratively speaking. 

In that coming day will be fulfilled the sweet prophesy of a divine king- 
dom on earth when the "wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard lay down 
with the kid, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little 
child shall lead them." All this mighty transformation will be brought about 
in God's own good time, and in his own good way; the "church militant" will 
have been gathered to its fathers to be known no more forever; the Church 
Triumphant, a federation church, will have been inaugurated; then, and not 
till then, will its communicants be changed from carnorants to herbivorants. 
In that day the lion shall eat straw like an ox and man and beast shall dwell 
together in unity and peace. None shall hurt or destroy one another, for the 
"earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the 
sea." Warring nations shall "beat their swords into plowshares, and their 
spears into pruning hooks," etc. 



78 THE HUMAN BODY 

TEA AND COFFEE. 

The expenditures for these so-called stimulants are amply sufficient to 
relieve every church throughout the length and breadth of the land from all 
financial embarrasment, pay minister's salary and have an ample surplus for 
the support of foreign missions. 



FLESH FOODS NOT CONDUCIVE TO STRENGTH OR ENDURANCE. 

I assume that the food question just as properly belongs to the domain 
of theology as physiology, and consequently the church and theological institu- 
tions have a duty to perform along the lines of food reform. In estimating 
the economy of plant foods in comparison with packing house outputs, we 
must study the problem from a number of view points. It is in evidence that 
every one hundred pounds of swine's flesh contains seventy-two pounds of 
vitiated water, loaded with consumption and cancer germs, or microbes. It 
is the folly of the foolish to purchase one hundred pounds of pork, full of 
darts for the liver; and it is the insanity of the insane to feed ten pounds of 
golden grain, each pound containing seventy-eight per cent food value, to get 
in return one pound of diseased flesh, containing less than one-half the food 
value of any one single pound of the grain. A prodigal waste of nine and a 
half pounds of golden grain to every pound of flesh produced. In view of the 
fact, is it wise to longer "cast pearls before swine." 

Under the heading: "Cancer deaths increase" I read the statement 
from the pen of a physician of recognized authority sanctioned by the ILLI- 
NOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, that the death rate from cancer in Chi- 
cago had increased 232 per cent from 1886 to 1905. The writer affirms that 
indulgence in packing house products of the vile character described by Upton 
Sinclair, in "Jungle," and Theodore Roosevelt in previous pages, is the under- 
lying cause. The same authority states that the Italians who live chiefly 
on maccaroni and spaghetti are singularly free from the disease. Dr. Max- 
well, a noted London specialist for cancer, says that during his fifty years 
experience as a specialist, he has not known a single case of the loathsome 
disease among plant food consumers. This, coupled with the fact that the 
loyal Jews (who eat no pork) are immune to the disease, led myself, Dr. Max- 
well, Dr. Cook Adams and many others, including the ILLINOIS STATE 
BOARD OF HEALTH, to conclude that the impurities taken into the system 
through packing house outputs are the germs from which cancer most gen- 
erally springs. 

Sickness from whatever cause involves a great expenditure of time, 
money and energy. All the money expended in doctors' bills, drug store bills, 
trained nurse bills, and often undertakers' bill, should be added to the original 
cost of the flesh foods, etc., and the gluttony that usually accompanies their 
use; for they are the primary cause of the cancers, and consumption germs, 
that so disturb the harmony of the family of organs, called the body. 

Does it pay to adopt a slow process of suicide by consumption and can- 
cer, under the delusive idea that they are conducive to health and strength? 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 79 

The writer has not partaken of flesh foods for thirty years, and in that time 
have seen no need of medicine, and now at the age of 78 is a better man, 
physically, mentally and morally than at fifty; and still growing better. 



THE PER CENT. VALUE OF PLANT AND FLESH FOODS. 

I have written of the economy of a plant food diet, not exhaustively, but 
sufficiently so to show the relative amount of nutriment in plant foods and 
flesh foods, the figures show that the ECONOMY feature is all on the side 
of the cereals, nuts, fruits, etc. To make that point still more conclusive, I 
will present figures, showing the percentage of solid nutriment in six kinds 
of plant foods, and in pork and beef. Wheat flour, 88; oatmeal, 91; corn meal, 
84; peas, 87; beans and lentils, 83; lean beef and pork, 28 per cent. It will 
thus be seen that beans and peas contain three times as much nutriment, 
pound for pound, as lean beef or pork. 

A fair quality of beef costs fifteen cents per pound, and soaring; a 
pound of beans or peas costs three cents. Twenty-two acres of land are 
necessary to support a man on flesh foods exclusively. Under the same 
amount of land 172 persons can be supported by its products of corn, rice or 
potatoes. Hence we arrive at the result that one pound of nourishment in 
the shape of lean beef or pork costs about 65 cents, bearing in mind that all 
flesh foods are about 70 per cent water of a vitiated character. One pound 
of nourishment in the form of cereals costs three and a half cents; quite an 
important difference for those who have to study the closest economy to make 
a small income go as far as possible. 

Further, the nourishment in plant food is of the right kind and in 
the right proportion to keep an equilibrium of brain and brawn. The Amer- 
ican people, as a rule, eat three times the amount necessary to supply the 
waste of the system, a prodigal waste of the food supplies. We are a nation 
of gluttons and consequently dyspeptics, and dyspepsia costs money, saying 
nothing about its discomforts, and consequent unhappy households. Milton 
places gluttony in the same circle of Inferno as drunkenness, and both alike 
are SINS of great enormity. 

Now, then, if the aggregate of the money it takes to foster dyspepsia 
from over eating, the amount it takes to buy proprietary medicines adver- 
tised as "sure cures" for dyspepsia, catarrh, etc., composed of about 27 per 
cent inferior whiskey, and the prodigal expenditures for flesh foods, which 
only add fuel to the fires raging within, and turn the amount of money 
thus recklessly expended into the church treasury for its current expenses, 
there would easily be sufficient to put the church on a sound financial basis, 
and at the same time to supply their physical wants. The mission of the 
church, taking Christ as the living example of the religion he taught and 
lived, is to "feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and to care for the fatherless 
and the widow." That is "pure and undefiled religion," so says the apostle. 



80 THE HUMAN BODY 

WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR DISOBEDIENCE? 

"The Great I Am" answered the question in the following words: "And 
it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the word of the Lord thy 
God to crucify the lusts of the flesh, to observe His commandments and His 
statutes, that curses shall come upon thee and thou shalt be smitten with 
consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme 
burning, and the evil angels shall pursue three until thou perish. 

May it not be possible that the one hundred and fifty thousand con- 
sumptives in the United States that annually perish and that are fleeing from 
all parts of the country to California, the Mecca of the "white plague" unfor- 
tunates, are the victims of violated law, that prohibited flesh as food. I so 
affirm, and defy successful contradiction. "If ye do whatsoever I command 
you, then my Father will love you and we will come and take up our abode 
with you," is the statement of the "Great Physician." Then if He thus abides 
with us He will control our abnormal appetites for flesh foods; tendency 
to gluttony, sickness and sorrow and wasting of our substance on physicians, 
nurses, etc., would be avoided, on the principle that an "ounce of prevention 
is worth a pound of cure." The amount of money thus expended, growing out 
of our ignorance of the laws of health and disobedience of the just and right- 
eous requirements of the greatest of physiologists would, if turned into a 
more legitimate channel, plant our churches on a sound financial basis, and 
they v/ould no longer pose before the public as mendicants, which often com- 
pels them to resort to doubtful expedients, church fairs, etc., to meet the cur- 
rent expenses of church work, etc. 

If this greatest of physicians is "with his disciples" as "an ever present 
help in every time of need," then should not the recipients of such ministry 
be willing to pay for such service, in the only way the obligation can be met, 
that is, the willing support of the institutions through which God dispenses 
his blessings to every creature of His creation, regardless of color, tribe, kin- 
dred or tongue. 

We assume that churches are instituted for the worship of God, and so 
they are; but the best worship we can render to the "Everlasting Father" is 
service to His beloved humanity, for whom Christ died. We can never reach 
the greatest good the church is capable of achieving by going to prayer meet- 
isg and singing: "Nearer My God to Thee," which, when given a correct inter- 
pretation in many cases would read, "Nearer My Stomach to Thee, Nearer to 
Thee; e'en though it be a cross, yet all my song shall be, nearer my stomach 
to thee, nearer to thee." Gold and the stomach are too often the gods that 
are worshiped with the majority of mammon worshipers, and too much em- 
phasis cannot be placed upon the unpalatable truth by those who claim to 
be God's appointed agents to reveal His will to man and his guardians of 
truth. 

We get together and sing: "How I love Jesus." Have the words any 
significance or are they only words on the lips? I assume that the only way 
we can prove our love for Jesus and His church is by making sacrifices for the 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 81 

good of humanity. Follow His example, which was one of constant service 
in behalf of his beloved humanity. 

He threw out the "life line" in a practical way, by feeding the hungry, 
clothing the naked, healing the sick, etc.; and when the "life line" was grasp- 
ed by some poor unfortunate gaderene or magdalene he "pulled for the shore" 
without decadence of ardor. It is that kind of PRACTICAL religion that 
saves; all who do not follow in the footsteps of the Great Exemplar of the 
"pure and undefiled religion," depending upon the formalities, rites and cere- 
monies, will, I fear, come to realize the deep significance of the words: "It is 
not they that cry, 'Lord! Lord!' that shall enter the kingdom, but they that 
DO the will of my Father in Heaven." 

There is deep significance in the words found in Isaiah, 1st chapter, 
namely: "To what purpose are the multitude of your formalities to me? 
Bring no more vain oblations; I'm weary of them, saith the Lord, and when 
you fold your hands to make many prayers, I will not hear you; I will have 
mercy, relieve the oppressed, care for the widow, help the fatherless." 

Now if we, as church communicants, were crucifying the lusts of the 
flesh, for the non-essentials of life, we would have the means of "relieving 
the oppressed, caring for the widow, and helping the fatherless" — the legiti- 
mate work of the "church triumphant." God's blessings are not given to us 
to be selfishly appropriated to our own use, hoarded as the miser hoards his 
gold, but it is for us as disciples to go forth and give as we have received. 

A good deacon, who assumed that he had done his whole duty, when he 
had prayed for a poor widow in dire distress for food and clothing, wood and 
coal, prayed long and earnestly at the family altar that God would stretch 
out His hand in her behalf and supply her wants. He himself had an 
abundance of gold, silver, etc. His young son who knelt at the altar and 
heard his father's prayers, said in words pregnant with meaning: "Father, 
if you'll hand me your pocket book, I'll answer that prayer in five minutes." 
That boy had a correct conception of a PRACTICAL Christian life. He stood 
as a "doer of the work, and not a believer only." 



THE GOLDEN RULE OF CONDUCT THE KEY TO CIVILIZATION. 

The "Great I Am" is on record as saying of man, the highest, grand- 
est, chief excellence, the crowning glory of all His creatures: "I will write 
my law in their hearts, and put it in their inward parts." 

Upon that unequivocal statement, I base the assumption that the human 
body, so "fearfully and wonderfully made," and showing such a wonderful 
adaptation of means to an end, is a volume of Divine Revelations, to be 
studied as reverently as a law written on "tables of stone" or in a book. The 
poet wrote: "Know thyself; presume not God to scan: the proper study of 
mankind is man." 

If by that axiom the writer meant that man should be studied as a 
volume of "Divine Revelations," I endorse the statement. Man is a trinity 
of forces, like his Divine Original, body, soul and spirit. Of this man in his 



82 THE HUMAN BODY 

entirity, the apostle wrote: "Know ye not that your bodies are the temples 
of the Holy Spirit?" To keep this "harp of a thousand strings" in sancti- 
fication and honor, so as to make the "inner sanctuary" the Holy of Holies," 
a fit dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, should be the central aspiration of 
each and every soul, in the church, around which all else revolves. Can we 
keep the body holy, sanctified, if we make it a sepulcher of dead and decom- 
posing animal matter, a pig-pen, or a locomoting beer and swill barrel, all in 
a ferment with foul gasses? 

I leave my reader to answer. 



THE BIBLE CONTAINS ALL NECESSARY COUNCIL AS TO THE MODUS 
OPERANDI TO KEEP THE BODY UNDER. 

The Bible I assume is a means to an end in keeping the animal part 
of our nature in subordination to the indwelling spirit is supreme. It 
amply repays a profound study as a means to that end, whether it be ap- 
proached merely because of its literary character, of which there is a great 
variety; its ethical teachings; or its practical bearings upon every day life. 

The latter feature chiefly concerns me at this writing, leaving the 
transcendentally greater influence on the SPIRIT in man, here and here- 
after, to the "Shepherds of the flock," whose more profound study in the 
domain of spirit better qualifies them for the task. As a physician, I confine 
myself to man's physical, mental and moral entity, leaving the spiritual, or 
real man, to the care of the theologian. 

I was recently challenged to a discussion of a question formulated thus: 
"Resolved, That the Bible in its teachings, is absurd, contradictory, untrue, 
and consequently dangerous to the physical, mental and moral nature of man." 

I entered the arena panoplied with the "Sword of the Spirit" to de- 
fend the book from such blasphemy. I took the ground, and I think main- 
tained it, that the Bible is the best and most concise book on hygiene; the 
best, code of morals; and consequently the best basis for a true civilization. 
I assumed that its fundamental doctrine was the Golden Rule of conduct in 
all the affairs of life, voiced by Moses in the words: "Do unto others as ye 
would they should do unto you,;" by Jesus: "Whatsoever ye would that men 
should do unto you, do ye even so to them." The practice of the Golden 
Rule cannot by the most forced construction be construed into hostility to 
the best interests of humanity. 

I will elucidate these points in the order named: 

First, I shall assume that the Bible is the best and most original 
treatise on hygiene extant; that all works on the subject are based upon it, 
and differ only in phraseology. Live up to its hygienic truths, as do the 
Jews in part, and cancer, consumption, cholera and many other congenital 
diseases would be consigned to oblivion. 

The author of the Pentateuch always puts the moral law in the fore- 
ground, but it is tempered with physical law. I follow his example. The 
req :iiements of the Jewish law in regard to health of body, to even a super- 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 83 

flcial observer, show that the old Jewish ceremonies were not merely re- 
ligious, but hygienic as well. Hygiene, looked upon from the standpoint of 
science, is of recent development, compared with the Hebrew. 

Solomon wrote a book, entitled "Sapher Reptuoth," in which he affirms 
that even kings were required to study medicine, dissect bodies, and experi- 
ment with animal life, much after the methods in vogue at this day. In 
view of the fact, the statement of Isaiah is comprehensible, namely: "I am 
not a physician; do not make me a leader of the people." 

Jewish hygienic precepts are at least 6,000 years in advance of the 
most civilized nations of Europe and the western continent. It is worthy of 
note that while the synagogue is given sixth place, the physician is given first. 

Moses took cognizance of the influence of the stomach on the brain, 
and its appendages, and the brain upon the stomach. In other words, Moses 
knew, as modern physicians are coming to admit, that hygiene is morality, 
and morality is hygiene. Cleanliness is godliness, and godliness is clean- 
liness. The old Jewish ritual regards filth as inimical to godliness and 
moral and physical health, consequently all synagogue worshippers were 
commanded to bathe the body, from the crown of the head to the sole of the 
foot, every morning at sunrise, before going to the synagogue to worship. 
The Jewish ritual required that all filth should be burned, buried, or other- 
wise destroyed. 

In a recent discussion on "Judaism and Modern Hygiene," Dr. Aaron 
Tilger, before a council of Jewish women, laid stress on the fact that most 
of the Jewish ceremonies were hygienic, though under religious dispensation, 
and that the oldest teachers and law givers of the race knew as much or 
more of the medical science than any man in the ranks of medicine today. 
Moses knew of microbes, named by him Masikin, and understood why water 
became impure and felt the need of extreme cleanliness is an established 
fact among synagogae worshippers. The only difference between the Rab- 
binical writing and modern hygienical writings, seems to be the substitution 
of the word microbe for maskin. The anti-septic treatment of wounds, 
comparatively modern, is the greatest achievement in the history of medicine. 
Prior to this discovery and the scientific determination of the cause of cor- 
ruption attending an operation, the most successful operation was not free 
from disagreeable accidents, and fatal terminations were daily occurences. 
The surgeon said: "My brother, I have performed the operation, and may 
"God heal thee." The uncertainty of the operation's result was caused by 
uncleanness on the part of the surgeon. 

There are untold numbers of vegetable and animal organisms whose 
germs colonize the air; these cling to the dressing, the instruments and hands 
of the operator. These in turn infect the wound, retard the process of heal- 
ing, and he is alone successful, uniformly, who prevented the access of germs 
to the wound. 

Sir Joseph Lister battled against germs and won. His aim was to de- 
feat fever, pus and complications, all caused by germs, and this was done 



84 THE HUMAN BODY 

after years of study, presumably of the old Hebrew methods of preventing pus 
formations. 

They are: Careful cleansing of the hands, especially the finger nails, 
use of the sterilized gown, to cover the head; sterilization of the instruments, 
apparatus, etc., the use of sterilized dressing. 

The anti-septic treatment of wounds, comparatively modern, is the 
greatest achievement in modern surgery. The uncertainty of the success of 
surgical operation, previous to Sir Joseph Lister's innovations was caused 
by uncleanliness on the part of the surgeon. Blood poisoning was regarded 
as fate. Vaccination is in the catagory of unclean operations. It has no sanc- 
tion in rabbinical writings. His aim was to prevent the colonization of germs 
after a surgical operation; vaccination has the very opposite effect. It stulti- 
fies itself by its absurdity, for an infinitude of germs follows the operation, 
if pus is formed. Lister's innovations are presumably the result of his study 
of old Hebrew methods. 

The requirements for successful operations are still ideal, and are well 
known. All Lister's requirements were strictly enforced under the old ordin- 
ances of the Isrealites. They were old in the time of Solomon, and had sur- 
geons in all succeeding ages been mindful of the teachings of the Bible, 
millions and billions of valuable lives, in hospitals and private practice, might 
have been saved. 

Why have surgeons thus proved recreant to their trust? Because 
in all ages there has been waging an unrelenting war between science and 
religion. For many centuries we have had in the ranks of the M. D.'s men of 
narrow vision, who, blinded by their prejudices, have adopted the old stale 
cry: "No good thing can come out of Nazareth." "Crucify it, crucify it, it 
hath a devil and is mad." 

Only recently reports have been published tending to show the liability 
of infection from the handling of books, paper money, speaking tubes of tele- 
phones, etc., the dangers of such contact were well known to Talmudic teach- 
ers of antiquity. 

We read: "All holy writings render the hands unclean." Why? Ancient 
writings were on oily parchments, which was favorable to the propagation of 
microbes; holy books being handled much more frequently than profane 
ones, the danger from contagion was greater. Disinfectants are provided 
for in the Mosaic statutes. Infected clothes were isolated seven days by the 
priests, and then either washed or burned. 

"Thy garments should be at all times white," is a Biblical injunction 
that is wholly and solely sanitary. No man of culture was permitted to dwell 
in any city that did not comply with the following regulations: "A physician, 
a surgeon, a bath, a public toilet, water — springs or rivers — a synagogue, a 
tutor of boys, a judicial authority and a scribe." 

All of these, and many other things, not mentioned, seem to show 
conclusively that Jewish physicians in the long, long ago practiced religiously 
hygiene and medicine, that was not one whit behind modern scientific views, 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 85 

and this again shows that all "up-to-date" hygienic usages are 6,000 years be- 
hind the teachings of the Talmud. 

Rabbinical ordinances might appear to have been written by a modern 
professor of hygiene. To the religious and social hygienic legislation and 
education it is due that Israel continues to live and owes its vitality to those 
ancient but religious hygienic regulations. The Jewish nation alone never 
perished. Happy in its faith, happy in its hygienic knowledge, it knows no 
doubt nor fears; it is not rent in twain, as a nation, by dissensions nor affected 
by the discords and wars of the universe. "Every Jew is an entity, one in a 
great, grand bond of intellectual brotherhood, Israel." 

Jewish synagogues as a rule are free from debt. Further, seldom do 
we find a Jew in a hospital, penitentiary, insane asylum, alms house or divorce 
courts. Why is this? I assume it is because of his fidelity to the hygienic 
laws of the Talmud, and his fidelity to his marriage vows. Emulate the Jew 
in his domestic relations and divorce courts would be consigned to oblivion. 

Colonel Robert Ingersoll, in a spirit of ridicule, gave a wide latitude 
to the mistakes of Moses, ignoring the grand precepts of the Talmud. Some 
one ought to write a book on the glaring mistakes of Ingersoll. 



MY RULING SENTIMENT IN PROFESSIONAL LIFE IS THE PRE- 
VENTION OF DISEASE. 
And as a means to that end I favor the adoption of the Bible methods, 
which in olden times was the employment of physicians on a salary. The 
Chinese do the same. The ruling sentiment among the Mongolians is "An 
ounce of preventation is worth a pound of cure." The Celestials pay their 
doctors to keep them well. Under the restrictions of the Orientals it is the 
the doctor's interest (financially) to look well after the sanitary conditions 
of the household, and he accomplishes his mission by adopting Bible hygiene, 
instructing his patrons when to eat, what to eat, when and how to drink, etc. 
All the Confucians of the Orient — 300,000,000 — are religiously plant food con- 
sumers. Their hygienic methods are closely akin to those of the Talmud, 
and the wisdom of substituting Bible hygiene for drugs is shown in the fact 
that very little medicines are required to keep the masses in normal health. 
Their methods are not held by the M. D.s in high esteem; there is no oppor- 
tunity for graft, and the arbitrary dictum of the medico-politico clan, whose 
chief business is to lobby legislatures in their interests to the utter neglect 
of the rights of their constituents. So glaring has become the conduct of the 
medical clan that the newspapers are deeming it their duty to rally to the 
defense of outraged humanity and point it to the door of escape from their 
bondage. There is constantly increasing evidence that as a result of news- 
paper enterprise the masses are awakening to the importance of a radical 
change in their dealings with doctors. The following from the San Francisco 
Bulletin reveals the animus, and from it the character of many others can 
be judged. It is headed: "WHY NOT RETAIN DOCTORS TO KEEP US 
WELL." It reads: 



86 THE HUMAN BODY 

"The science of medicine made a seven league leap when it adopted 
the theory that the best way to cure disease is to prevent it. Doctors will do 
a great deal of guessing in their practice for some time to come, as they do 
now, but it is not too optimistic a forecast to predict that science will rob dis- 
ease of all its terrors in the course of time. Our custom of employing doc- 
tors only in times of sickness puts a premium on quackery and fraud. It is 
to the doctor's interest to keep his patients ill as long as he can. The more 
visits the more money for him. Since medical science is more concerned with 
the cure rather than the prevention of disease, our logical course is to employ 
the doctor to keep us well. Every family ought to retain a physician, paying 
so much per month during good health, and suspending the pay, either totally 
or partially, so long as any member lay ill. This system would insure a regu- 
lar income to the physician, and would remove all temptation to play tricks 
on his patients, and at the same time it would insure families against the 
swamping expense of a protracted sickness. A man of limited income is in 
danger at any time of having to default in payments of his life insurance or 
his mortgage, or his church dues (might be added), because sickness at home 
may clean out his savings deposit. If he had a family doctor, regularly 
retained, sickness, instead of draining his little capital, would enable him to 
save money." 

I hope that all newspapers will hold up the looking glass to the masses 
in the same manner and to the same extent. It will be a step in the right 
direction to put a stop to a dangerous trust. 

BIBLE HYGIENE IS THE REMEDY. HEED IT AND THE 
NATION CAN GIVE THE MEDICAL TRUST A FURLOUGH FOR LIFE. 



THE BIBLE THE BEST BOOK ON MORALS AND CONSEQUENTLY 

ON CIVILIZATION. 
JUDGE CONWAY OF LOS ANGELES said: "The Bible is the 
greatest law book in the world. The ten commandments are good laws to 
engrave on the hearts of men. The Mosaic law, as affecting persons and 
property, were worthy a people far advanced in civilization. Everywhere the 
Jewish lawgivers have an ideal of justice, unparalleled in this age, and there 
is no doubt that human liberty, as men possess it today, is a precious legacy 
from the old system of Jewish laws." The judge supported his postulates 
with texts of which the following are samples: 



COMMANDMENTS OF THE GREAT LAWGIVERS. 
"Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small." 
"Thou shalt not have in thine house diverse measures, a great and 
small; but thou shalt have perfect and just measures, a perfect and just 
weight shalt thou have." "Judges and officers shalt thou make in all thy 
gates, and they shall judge thy people with just judgment." "Thou shalt not 
wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift, for a 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 87 

gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous." 
"That which is altogether just thou shalt follow." 

How demorilizing are these precepts. A great pity the grafters in San 
Francisco and other cities had not lived up to their requirements. Their day 
of judgment has overtaken them, and many are repenting in sackcloth and 
ashes behind penitentiary bars that they had not heeded the commands of 
the Great Judge in the language just quoted. There s a "thus saith the 
Lord emphasis," in those commands which it will be well for all to heed. 

The core and kernal of the old Jewish laws was not the "eye for the 
eye, tooth for tooth, and blood regime," but "What more doth the God require 
of thee than to deal justly, love mercy and walk humbly before thy God." 



MOSAIC LAW NOT DEFILING. 

What is there false and defiling about those precepts? Live then as 
did the loyal Jews of old, and there would be an end to the conflict between 
capital and labor, strikes would be unknown, in short we would soon receive 
an answer to the prayer of the ages, "Thy kingdom come." 

Judge Conway made his affirmations before a lawyers' club, and as the 
question was open for discussion and not a dissenting voice, it is safe to 
assume that the legion of lawyers present, trained to exact analysis of evi- 
dence, did not endorse the affirmations of the Bible deniers who assumed that 
its truths are "absurd, contradictory, untrue and a menace to morals." The 
spirit of the high standard of law, justice and morals embodied in the texts 
quoted became a part of the national life of the Hebrews and found expression 
in their literature. 



WHEREIN WAS MOSES GREATNESS? 
By the Hon. David J. Brewer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
United States of America. 
"Moses — born a slave, condemned before birth to death, hidden by his 
mother, found and adopted by the daughter of Pharoah. brought up in the 
family by the king, educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, yet never 
forgetting his own people, a fugitive from Egypt, sojourning forty years in 
the land of Midian, summoned by a voice from heaven to return to Egypt to 
deliver his brethren from slavery, accomplishing their deliverance through 
wonderful manifestations of miraculous power, leading and ruling them for 
forty years in a wilderness journey to the borders of Canaan, forhidden by the 
Almighty to enter this, the promised home of the descendents of Abraham, 
but permitted from Pidgah's mount to gaze upon it, this man looms up a 
gigantic figure in Jewish history. He not only assumed power and ruled a 
race for forty years, he also framed a body of laws which has challenged the 
admiration of the world, and placel him among the great lawgivers of earth. 
He it was who gave the world the essence of all good laws, namely, the 
Golden Rule, or "Do by others as you would be done by." To sustain his right 
to this place we are not called upon to measure his code by those of later 



88 THE HUMAN BODY 

times, nor to prove its adaptability to other races and other conditions. The 
great merit of a statute is that it answers the existing needs of the people for 
whom it was enacted, that its effects is elevating, and that it is capable of 
present enforcement That his laws do not in all points respond to our 
notions, either ethical or political, do not necessarily belittle him as a law- 
giver, for laws which we require and enforce, if promulgated by him might 
have been persistently and universally ignored. A dead letter statute is a 
mistake. 

In determining his greatness as a law giver, we must, therefore, consider 
the conditions of those for whom he framed those laws. They were a people 
jast emancipated, and we know something of the conditions and capacities 
of a race coming out of slavery. It was part of the statesmanship to enact 
laAvs which the recently emancipated Israelites would obey, and at the same 
time pointed upward rather than downward, and which the more fully they 
were obeyed the higher would be the resultant civilization. 

The greatness of Moses as a lawgiver appears in the fact that his laws, 
whether original or selected, are as a whole so full of merit. The merit of 
these laws is attested to by the fact that under them the Jewish nation lived 
and prospered for many centuries, and they are today accepted as authori- 
tative by the Jewish people. Surely a body of laws which hold a people of 
their intellectual capacity, and such power of race preservation as distin- 
guishes the Jews, must posses great intrinsic worth. These have been their 
laws, notwithstanding all the changes in life and habits. At first a pastoral 
people, with limited wealth, measured by flocks and herds, a movable ark the 
centre of their religious life, lacking the splendor of a court, engaged in no 
wars of aggression. After this a form of government, a monarchy, great 
wealth, a temple whose magnificence was the object of the world's admira- 
tion, a cultivation and personal culture attracting the attention of all. For 
centuries wanderers, objects of persecution, under the ban of popular preju- 
dice, and only of late rising slowly into power through individual action, yet 
ever maintaining without a break their seperate racial life. During all these 
changes of national life these varied forms of individual experience, the laws 
of Moses have ever been accepted as authoritative, their lawyers simply 
interpreters of these laws, and their law books but commentaries on them. 



WHY JEWS ARE TENACIOUS OF THEIR LAWS. 
Looking within them for the secret of thir power we find that the 
RELIGIOUS element is the basis, the marked characteristic of the entire 
Mosaic legislation distinguishing fact, is the constant recognition of ONE GOD, 
a single Jehovah, entitled to the worship of all intelligent beings. Not only is 
there no suggestion of a multitude of divinities, but there is on the contrary 
an unfailing protest against the idea of numbers. The ten commandments 
open with the declaration, "I'm the Lord thy God, which have brought thee 
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shait have no 
otner gods before me." Then follow the denunciations of idolatry, blasphemy, 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 89 

etc. This is the keynote of those laws, and the Jewish people stand today as 
the race which for 3,000 years has preserved with unchanging faith and in the 
face of all temptations, the doctrines of the singleness of the Supreme being. 
It is no wonder the Jews are tenacious of those laws. They see that science 
is more and more affirming that in the nature of things there is and can be 
but one Supreme Being, one Infinite Power back of the seen and material. 
They see that in ihose laws of Moses, given to them more than thirty cen- 
turies ago, is a provision of that which science affirms today, and they can 
but feel that as their custodians they are entitled to the respect of mankind. 
We may as well consider the sweep and comprehensiveness of those laws. 
They touch the life of the individual and the nation in all relations social, 
economic, political and religious. The form of government was established, 
although subject to change, and in fact was changed. They contained a 
judicial system and an entire code of criminal law. Social relations with pen- 
alties for violations were defined. All the minutia for worship and religious 
ceremonial were given. Expiation for sins were provided for, and the terms 
and conditions of expiation named. And all was done in the name and by 
the authority of Jehovah. "Thus saith the Lord" was the beginning and the 
end of the laws oj. Moses. 

Again notice the superiority of the laws of Moses over those of sur- 
rounding nations. Space forbids more than two or three illustrations. One 
is the means taken to protect the life of one wrongfully accused, and the rule 
by which in CAPITAL cases the witnesses were required to take part in the 
execution. They had to face the consequences of their testimony. "The 
hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to be put to death, and after- 
wards the hands of all the people. "Not only was this required, but there 
could be no sentence of death except on the testimony of two witnesses to 
the facts. No single witness was sufficient to take away a man's life. At the 
mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to 
death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death." As under 
our national constitution, no one can be convicted of treason except on the 
testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open 



A BOON FOR THE UNFORTUNATE. 

Whatever might be done for the alien and his property, the SERVI- 
TUDE^ a Jew terminated, and he was restored to his ancestral possessions 
when the year of jubilee came. This was a bankrupt law whose benediction 
to the unfortunate debtor has never been equalled in the legislation of any 
country. As a boon couchsafed to the Jews alone it tended to develop a love 
for and pride in race, and has nudoubtedly been one factor in creating in that 
people its marvelous racial tenacity. No wonder they have always felt them- 
selves to be a peculiar people, separated from all other peoples by the special 
care and providence of Jehovah. 

Referance may also be made, though without enlarging upon the sub- 
ject to the various provisions designed to enforce purity, uphold the sanctity 



90 THE HUMAN BODY 

of marriage, and give the wife a more stable position than wives enjoyed 
among surrounding nations. Not that the legislation in those matters cor- 
responds to our higher conceptions of the value of the family. The impor- 
tant fact is that purity was vigorously enforced, a purity which has charac- 
terized the Jewish people to the present day. 

Moses does not fall short when placed beside the great lawgivers of 
the race. "A hint to Ingersoll's followers." 



WINE, BEER, TEA, COFFEE, ETC., BEAR NO COMPARISON TO 
WATER AS STRENGTH GIVERS. 

On a former page I assumed that the articles enumerated under this 
caption Dore no comparison .with water as strength givers, and stated that I 
would present facts of an EXPERIMENTAL character further on to sustain 
my postulate. The proofs from my experience in fasting are in order. 

In the Los Angeles Examiner of Sunday, December 11th, 1904, there 
appeared an article over my signature in which I laid it down as a postulate 
that with suitable water and pure air environments I could totally abstain from 
food for one hundred days. I took the position and proposed to maintain it 
by actual test that the long fast of Moses, one hundred and twenty days, was 
within the limits of possibility in this age of marvels. In support of my 
assumption I cited the experience of a camel connected with Grenier's circus, 
a Chicago outfit, who as the result of lockjaw totally abstained from both 
food and water for ninety days. Every effort to relieve the animal proved 
unavailing. On the day mentioned the jaw unlocked spontaneously, and the 
animal vigorously returned to its feed, and was soon in a normal condition. 

The Bible states that man "is given dominion over the beasts of the 
field, the fowls of the air and the fish of the sea." If so, then man is their 
superior, and what they can and have accomplished man can duplicate. 

Now I assume that the fast of the camel, without water, was the equi- 
valent of one hundred and twenty days with water. I base the assumption 
on facts transpiring in my own experience of fasting forty days, fourteen 
days without water and the balance of the time with water. The details 
I will give further on. 

The celebrated Miss Mollie Fancher of Brooklyn, N. Y., who lay for 
ten weeks in a condition of suspended animation pronounced dead by three 
reputable physicians, holds the record as the champion abstainer from food. 
For many years after her apparent death, the amount of food consumed bp 
her daily would hardly suffice to keep a canary bird in singing mood. I visited 
her weekly for many months and have witnessed many attempts on her part 
to retain food on her stomach, only to be ejected immediately, no matter 
what its quality or how minute the quantity. I might cite other cases in 
number, but space forbids. 

Scientific men judiciously refuse to bank on reported cases of pro- 
longed fasting on the mere ipse dixit of the testators. They demand proofs. 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 91 

In my experiment of fasting forty days (under medical supervision), the 
proofs were not wanting, as the reading public know beyond a peradven- 
ture. As a rule but little notice is taken of the fact that for the first fourteen 
days of my New York fast I totally abstained from water as well as food. The 
loss of one pound and a half daily during the period when I abstained from 
water, against eight ounces per day during the remaining twenty-six days 
with water, tells the story that my forty days fast was the equivalent of sixty- 
eight days with water. My loss in strength as well as weight was corres- 
pondingly rapid during the period that I abstained from water. I still claim 
that I am in the lead of all competitors. I acknowledge no peer as a faster, 
for the last two thousand years, with the one exception of Grenier's camel, 
and I feel like humping myself to hold my prestige even against camels. 

I am seventy-eight years young, and am in better condition physically, 
mentally and morally as a result of my dietetic habits without tea, coffee or 
beer than at any period of my life. On a guarantee of $5,000 I hold myself 
ready to demonstrate the possibility of an eighty days total abstinence from 
food providing that I can have access to mountain air and pure spring water. 



FURTHER PROOF. 

When I left Clarendon Hall, New York City, where the fast took place, 
on the fourteenth day of total abstinence from both food and water. I was 
scarcely able to walk down stairs by supporting myself with the handrail. 
On that day I made my first visit to Central Park. There I found a spring 
of deliciously cool water (of which I partook freely). Returning to the hall 
(after an absence of one hour only), I climbed the stairs leading to the hall 
two steps at a time, with the nimbleness of a boy that had stirred up a 
hornet's nest. I attributed that wondrous change to the water I drank and 
the pure air I breathed on that occasion. Returning from one of my daily 
rides to the park and feeling greatly exhilerated by my rations, on the 
seventeenth day I felt like lauding the water and air, both charged with 
life-giving electricity, as a valuable food. A medical student (with more 
zeal than wisdom) took issue with me, and flippantly remarked that "however 
good water and air were, beef was better." 

"That is an assumption that demands proof," I retorted. "I challenge 
you to test your hypothesis by taking laps around this hall until one or the 
other surrenders." 

Round and round the hall we went until the eighteenth lap, when the 
student fell out puffing and blowing like a wind broken horse, leaving air 
and water victor over beef. 

It may be worthy of mention that my mental powers during my fast 
were daily augmented to the very great surprise of my medical attendants, 
who were constantly on the watch for mental collapse, which was freely 
predicted, if I persisted in the experiment until the tenth day. About the 
middle of my first experiment I, too, had visions like Paul of old. I seemed 
to be intromitted to the heavens, and saw things which even the pen of a 



92 THE HUMAN BODY 

Milton, Shakespere or Edgar Allen Poe could not portray in all their vivid 
reality. As a result of my fasting I came to comprehend why the old 
prophets and seers so often resorted to fasting as a means of spiritual illum- 
ination. 

When I broke my fast I broke all records. I ate sufficient food in the 
first, twenty-four hours after breaking the fast to gain nine pounds, and 
thirty-six pounds in eight days, all that I had lost. When the fast was ended 
I called my stomach home from its summer vacation, and told it I had work 
for it to do, and a plenty of it; and that I wanted it to go to work vigorously, 
and it obeyed without a murmur. I was told that when I commenced to 
eat inflammation would immediately set in and I would be ready for the 
undertaker in less than twenty-four hours. My stomach, declared ruined 
by the doctors, took up its duties in the way described, and from that day to 
his has continued to do the very best service. I now give it an entire rest 
one day in seven, that is Sunday, and relieve it of any labor every day until 
the noonday hour. I eat no breakfast and am all the better for it, both in 
person and pocket. 

Reader, emulate the very large number of people who are dispensing 
with breakfast, place the amount thus saved for your Sunday contribution 
to the support of your church, and many of you will find yourselves amply 
compensated with spiritual visions and dreams to which the multitude of 
people who "live to eat" are well nigh strangers, and besides you will merit 
ihe approval of heaven and your own conscience by doing God's will. 

"Dare to be Daniels." 

WATER AND BEER COMPARED. 

The following challenge to the brewers of Los Angeles, published 
in the Searchlight of that city, was made in good faith. It tells its own story. 
Read it, and then judge of the soundness of my premise on the food value 
of the much lauded beer. 
Editor of Searchlight: 

Maier & Zobelein of our city have distributed LAVISHLY a booklet 
entitled, "Facts About Beer," in which the author's powers of carricature 
and prevarication are far more conspicuous than his fairness, justice or wis- 
dom. He takes the position that water drinking is a menace to health and 
life because the user has not protection from the ravages of microbes colon- 
ized therein, an assumption that demands proof. 

"The proof of the pudding is in the eating." As is well known to 
the ends of the telegraphic world the undersigned is a man of deeds. 

The labored efforts of W. A. Lawrence, the author of the twenty-eight 
pages of froth and foam, that like the beer he eulogizes as the "elixir of life," 
vanishes into thin air when weighed in the balance of reason and common 
sense, reminds me of the legendary story of the mountain that labored and 
brought forth a mouse. The bulk of his assumptions are glaringly inconsis- 
tent and will not stand the test of analysis. For instance: He cites the case 
of a man confined in a cage who was fed alcohol and sustained life and 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS »S 

leaves the reader to infer from such shallow reasoning that alcohol is a 
rejuvenator of vital force. 

In 1880 the undersigned was shut up in a cage for fourteen days, with- 
out food or water deprived of sleep and compelled to breathe air of the most 
vitiated character and without alcohol in any form or under any disguise 
kept up his normal temperature to the profound surprise of the champions 
of alcoholic alimentation, who assumed that without such sustenance I would 
be dead or crazy by the tenth day, if the experiment was persisted in. 

In the summer of 1887 I totally abstained from all food liquid or solid 
for forty-two days and nights and on the thirty-eighth day walked fourteen 
miles; my only sustenance during the whole period being water, which it 
is assumed by the writer of the prolix diatribe against aqua pura to be a 
"menace against health and life." 

I demand of the brewers that they produce the man or men of equal 
endurance for an equal length of time on their much lauded beer as a strength 
giver and sustainer of life. It cannot be done. 

In this mind-opening age thinkers demand something more tangiblel 
than mere speculatiove opinions. Can we have facts that will decide the 
disputed and disputable problem of the relative nutritive properties of beer 
and water? I assume that we can and challenge the brewers to the following 
test in support of my assumption: 

I challenge Maier & Zobelein to prove their unwarrantable assumptions 
that the products of the brewhouse are what they boastingly assume them 
to be, by furnishing six stalwart beer drinkers — of any nationality — to sit 
down with me to test the relative nutritive properties of beer and water, I 
to confine myself exclusively to water containing the much maligned MI- 
CROBES; the six beer drinkers to confine themselves to beer exclusively in 
any quantity they may deem advisable to success. The trial to continue day 
by day — six beer drinkers against one water drinker — until the one or the 
last of the six yields the contest. 

The salient points of W. A. Lawrence's diatribes are altogether too 
prolix to be commented on in a newspaper argument. I, therefore, chal- 
lenge the writer or any other representative of the brewers' interest to 
meet be in a joint debate of the question in dispute on the stage of any 
suitable auditorium, the people to decide from the evidence presented — pro 
and con — as to the merits and demerits of our relative pose on the question. 

Now, gentlemen, will you refuse to accept my proposition to totally 
abstain from all food, but water, for eighty days if necessary, and even one 
hundred days if the exigencies of the case require it? 

You have my proposition, will you refuse to accept it, knowing I am 
right, or allow me to do wrong to the laboring class to whom you assume that 
beer is indispensable as a strength giver, mental invigorator and spiritual 
sustainer? My two challenges are open for your acceptance. All prelimi- 
naries can be satisfactorily arranged on notification of the acceptance of one 
or both of my propositions. As an advertisement for the genuineness of your 



94 THE HUMAN BODY 

claim to the superiority of beer over water, milk, tea, coffee, etc., the success 
of the beer drinkers in such a contest would be paramount to all others. Can 
you afford to miss the opportunity to boom your interests? 

H. S. TANNER, M. D. 
P. T. Barnum, during his lifetime, made this proposition in an open 
letter to the public, that if made the custodian of all the money burned and 
chewed up for tobacco he would pledge himself to feed, clothe and well 
educate and house every man, woman and child in the United States. I 
assume that if all the money squandered for tobacco, beer and intoxicants in 
the form of beverages and medicines were turned into the treasury of a. 
federated church and used judiciously it would amply feed, house, clothe, 
and educate all these people and support in the same manner and to the 
same extent all our churches, so that they could do their legitimate work 
without let or hinderance. I repeat that our churches are the bulwark of our 
very imperfect civilization. My appeal then to the people of the republic to 
"crucify the lusts of the flesh" in the manner and to the extent described is an 
appeal to the nation's patriotism. It is an appeal to the scions of our Revo- 
lutionary sires to come to the rescue of our beloved country from the impend- 
ing doom that has overtaken other nations in the past who have divorced 
themselves from their religious institutions. 



MY FASTS VALUABLE AS EDUCATORS ALONG MANY LINES. 

The value of the cereals, nuts, fruits, etc., over the flesh foods was 
brought conspicuously to the front during my fasts; my advanced ideas and 
vigorous championship of their great superiority served as a text. The large 
and pitiful conformists to their stomach's dictum who are sitting up nights 
to perfect Bright's disease were equally as zealous in their championship of 
flesh food. 

Count Ferdinand De Lesseps of France took a hand in the discussion. 
He called attention to the fact that while building the Suez canal he had in 
his employ thousands of men of almost every nationality and of the differ- 
ent kinds of food as strength inducers and also endurance, and that as a result 
of months of careful observation of the rice eating Japanese and other Orien- 
tals he was forced to the conclusion in spite of his education and preconceived 
opinions to the contrary, that the superiority of the cereals, vegetables, etc., 
was FIVE to ONE over the flesh foods. 

I long since came to the conclusion that flesh foods are no more neces- 
sary for men than for the horse, ox, elephant or any other herbivorant animal; 
neither are tea, coffee, beer, necessary on the same grounds. 
LABORERS IN INDIA. 

United States Consul Patterson at Calcutta has supplied the Bureau 
of Foreign Commerce of the State Department some statistics relative to the 
cost and means of subsistence of laborers in India that exhibit in a striking 
manner the extreme economy practiced by the natives. His tables show that 
the highest wages paid for skilled labor is $4.50 per month for mill hands; 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 95 

while $1.00 per month is the ordinary wages for able bodied agricultural 
laborers. They live altogether on grain, using about one pound and a half 
per day, costing two cents per pound. Yet with this small amount of food 
their muscles are well developed, their endurance in carrying heavy burdens 
being remarkable, equalled only by the porters in Constantinople, who, as I 
previously stated, will trot along under a load that would stagger an Arizona 
mule. 

Some time since I passed through a five years' experience in commun- 
ity life; like the primitive Christians, who held all things in common. Often 
our colony had from fifty to one hundred Mexicans on the pay roll for weeks 
at a time. This afforded me ample opportunity to note the effect of their 
simple dietary to maintain an equipoise of brain and brawn. The Mexicans 
as a rile consume very little flesh. Their dietary consists mainly of corn, 
sweet potatoes, fruit, nuts, etc., not to exceed more than one-third of the 
amount consumed daily by the average American. On Sunday, perhaps, a 
chicken may be added to the menu, or sometimes a kid goat will supply a 
number of families for the occasion. Flesh foods are indulged in only on 
Sunday among the small ranchmen or laborers. One pound and a half of 
plant foods prove sufficient to keep the Mexican laborers in prime physical 
condition; much better than among those who indulge in flesh foods to re- 
pletion. On that amount of cereals the ordinary Mexican is capable of ten 
hours of hard labor, digging in the soil, planting vineyards, brickmaking, 
house building or other labor. The colony lands embraced fifteen hundred 
acres, upon which grew in profusion grass and other vegetation. The laborers 
were given the privilege of pasturing horses while at work. When the hours 
of labor were ended under the semi-tropical sun then came a season of hi- 
larity, lassoing horses, they would whoop and yell like wild Indians, stimu- 
lating the equities to marvelous speed to avoid the lariat which would be 
thrown with energy and precision, seldom failing of its mak, while the ani- 
mals were running at full speed. The enjoyment to both men and animals 
seemed to be mutual. I have many times watched the sport. The horses are 
so well trained that the moment they feel the lasso they stop short, thus 
preventing all danger of choking or being thrown. I speak of this hilarity to 
show that hard physical labor does not interfere with the Mexican's love of 
sport, and the enjoyment of life on his plane of activities. As a people they 
are as happy and contented as a lot of darkies at a "cake walk," more so than 
the average of American laborers. 



THE UNTUTORED MEXICANS HAVE BUT LITTLE USE FOR PHYSI- 
CIANS. 

The simple dietetics of the Mexicans keeps them in a condition of health 
that dispenses to a great extent with professional services. In the states 
physicians average one to every four hundred and fifty persons; in Mexico 
a physician would starve among five thousand natives, if dependent on them 
professionally. 

A strong argument in favor of the flesh abstainers. 



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A NOTABLE CASE OF STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE. 

The amount of energy inherent in a small amount of food was recently 
demonstrated in the person of a New York athlete to a surprising degree. 
Gilman Low lifted 106,000 pounds in thirty-four minutes and thirty-five sec- 
onds. The scales were so arranged as to bring the arms, legs and back 
muscles into play. Each lift of the beam under which he stooped raised a 
thousand pounds of dead weight. During the two months training Mr. Low 
lived on one meal a day, consisting of three eggs, half a loaf of whole wheat 
bread, fruit (either oranges, grapes, apples or bananas), cereals and nuts, 
and one glass of milk after the meal, water during the day. As an experi- 
ment Mr. Low says: "I ate meat twice the first five weeks, and found I could 
have done just as well without it. The last four weeks I lived on four meals 
weekly, consisting of the same diet as the five weeks previous." That which 
followed is already history. Mr. Low says "freedom of lung power is very 
important in lifting, for as one ceases to breathe well the muscular power 
fails." He believes in cutting down the food and practicing deep breathing. 
He is a model of physical perfection. 

The seven days' fast at Madison Square Garden in December, 1903, by 
eight athletes under the supervision of Mr. Bernarr McFadden, editor of the 

Physical Culture Journal, from whom we quote, has done a great deal 
of good in bringing to the notice of thousands of people all over the United 
States the lasting benefits to be derived from fasting. It was demonstrated 
on the occasion referred to that not only could a person continue to exist 
during a prolonged fast without injury, but what is of greater value, that he 
was actually greatly improved thereby. Eight athletes were entered on the 
lists at the beginning of the fasts. The records made by them are history. 
Mr. Low won first prize in strength contests. He lifted 900 pounds in a 
straight hand grip lift, and a fifty-six pound weight was thrown thirteen feet 
six inches. The athlete, to prove that his strength had not diminished in the 
least, lifted on the sixth day of his fast with hands alone 500 ponuds twenty 
times in fifteen seconds, and 900 pounds in twenty seconds. With back lift 
one ton twelve times in twenty seconds.. After the tests on Saturday night 
he lifted one ton twenty-two times in nineteen seconds before a group of 
doctors, in order to demonstrate what he knew to be true in regard to fast- 
ing. Remember these are now world's records in strength and endurance, 
and were made after SEVEN DAYS' TOTAL ABSTINENCE FROM FOOD. 
Many are skeptical in regard to the wonderful feats recorded in the Bible 
of the phenomenal strength of Samson, but many skeptics are now con- 
vinced that the Bible record of Samson's unparalelled strength are within 
the range of the possible, just as my forty days' fast conclusively showed 
many unbelievers in the forty days' fast of Jesus of Nazareth that it might 
possibly have a basis in fact. Notwithstanding Mr. Low's marvelous feats in 
the presence of sixteen thousand people, there were some chronic ingrained 
skeptics among the doctors who sought to belittle the feats by crying "fraud," 
"fake," "humbug," etc., just as they did in my case. In self defense Mr. Low 



A VOLUME OP DIVINE REVELATIONS 97 

wrote to a doctor friend as follows: "At the end of my fifteen days' fast 
in Boston I could have thrashed my weight in wild cats. If the doctors 
referred to think a man will he so weak in a week's time he cannot walk I 
will fast fifteen days and if any two of them can handle me in any way 
suitable to them I will give them each one hundred dollars. In other words, 
immediately after a fifteen days' complete fast on my part I will be willing 
to place myself in a room of their own choosing, dressed in the same way as 
they, and empty-handed, absolutely. Then send any two of these doctors in 
to drive me out (or perhaps they think I would be so weak they would have 
to carry me out) and if they succeed in driving me out or ridding the room 
(they are privileged to kick, scratch or bite) they can each have one hundred 
dollars. If I put them out (which would surely be the case, no matter how 
big they are) then they are to give me one hundred dollars between them. 
Is this fair, doctor? 

"Very truly yours, 

GILMAN LOW. 



SPEED AND ENDURANCE OF HERBIVORANTS. 

The animals with the most speed and endurance, the horse, the rein- 
deer, antelope, the hare, and others, are all herbivorants. The elephant is 
the most powerful of all quadrupeds. If Jumbo can attain and maintain such 
unparalelled strength on plant food, and that, too, under a tropical sun, why 
may not a diet free from flesh prove equally potent to induce strength of body 
in man? The wonderful strength and endurance of the ox and the horse, 
attests beyond a peradventure the value of the cereals as food. Who in the 
face of such evidence as I have presented dare assert that plant foods are 
not equally valuable for man? 

The lion has been named the "king of beasts," but it has lost its pres- 
tige. The herbivorant bull now holds the championship, having defeated 
a lion in a prize ring contest in El Paso, Texas. The only hope of the lion 
regaining its prestige is when the prediction is fulfilled that the "king of 
beasts" shall in time "eat straw like the ox." 

The wonderful strength and endurance of the Spartan soldier in the 
deserts of Syria is history. Duplicate that army of vegetarians in strength 
and endurance with a like number of omnivorant soldiers of a nation. It 
cannot be done. The Japanese soldiers are the nearest approximation to the 
Spartans, but fish was served as rations to them. 

It would be impossible to find an army of omnivorant soldiers that could 
stagger undei a burden weighing 100 pounds at the rate of four miles per 
hour, for twelve hours per day, day after day, in the burning sands of the 
desert, and under its tropical sun. 

At one time the army of Leonidas was reduced to a diet of mutton. 
The brave Spartans named it "starvation diet," and were overjoyed when 
their usual diet of "bread and dried fruit" was again available. 

It is strength and endurance we want, such as the Spartan soldiers 



98 THE HUMAN BODY 

possessed; not sudden paroxysms of blood thirsty ferociousness, such as th« 
lion and tiger manifest in the slaughter of their prey. 



TO COME NEARER HOME AND UP TO DATE. 

The Vegetarian Cycling Club of England has surpassed all other cycling 
clubs in proportion to their numbers, fifteen having made records or taken 
prizes. 

The champion wrestler of the world is a rice-eating Japanese. 

The champion Samson of the United States, probably of the world, 
it, Gilman Low, with whose dietetics the reader is already informed. 

The leaders in the great seven days' walking match from Vienna, Ger- 
many, to Berlin, in 1893, were flesh food abstainers, and they arrived in Ber- 
lin, two of them, twenty-four hours ahead of the fastest flesh food habitues. 
One of the contestants entered the race with a string of sausage around his 
neck, and a canteen of beer slung over his shoulder. He was the first to 
collapse. He was hilarious in the extreme, guyed the vegetarians about a 
diet of carrot tops and turnip parings. The result of this seven days' walk- 
ing match chagrined the omnivorant Germans who participated in the walk. 
They attributed their failure to "over confidence." After careful training, 
the flesh abstainers were again challenged, which was accepted with results 
as decisive as before. 



STILL ANOTHER TRIAL WITH LIKE ENDING. 

In the month of May, 1902, another match between flesh eaters and 
abstainers took place between Dresden and Vienna, Germany. The flesh 
abstainers scored another decisive victory. 



THE CHAMPION WALKER OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Weston, who a few years ago walked from Portland, Maine,, to 
Chicago, often walking one hundred miles per day, while not strictly a flesh 
food abstainer, closely approximated to it. In conservation with him, while 
making his historical walk, he told me that he was a total abstainer from 
intoxicant liquors and tobacco, and ate very sparingly of flesh. At the age 
of 70 he has recently duplicated that walk, showing that his strength is not 
impared by age or frugal dietetics. 

Blondin, who walked across Niagara Falls on a rope, carrying a man 
on his back, and trundling a wheelbarrow in front of him, one of the most 
daring, thrilling and perilous feats on record, was a total abstainer from 
tobacco and intoxicants. He drank no tea or coffee, and ate so little flesh 
foods as to practically place him in the ranks of the flesh abstainers. 

The writer has passed through two fasting experiences, one of forty- 
two days and the second of forty days. I have posed in the ranks of the 
flesh abstainers for thirty years, and my only regret is that I cannot say 
seventy years. I am a total abstainer from beer, wine, tobacco, coffee, tea, 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 99 

etc. I eat but two meals per day, often only one, breaking my fast at noon. 
I am so well preserved as the result of my regime that I should fear- 
lessly undertaking another fast of eighty days. 



CENTENARIANS SIMPLE FEEDERS. 

The United States census reports for 1900 gave 3,504 persons in the 
republic 100 years of age and over. The little principality of Bulgaria, with 
less than three and a half millions of population, numbers 3,883 centenarians. 
Were we living as simply as do the Bulgarians, with a population of near 
100,000,000, there should be 100,000 centenarians. Says James Thymenkl of 
Phoenix, Arizona, who is a native of Cos, Asia Minor: "About twenty miles 
from Cos there is a small village of five hundred people, Greek Christians, 
who never taste meat, except on Christmas, New Year and Easter. They 
thrive on black bread, garlics, onions, olives and greens. They are long 
lived, strong and healthy. Their women are as strong as the men, and 
capable of an equal amount of manual labor. We as a people are prone to 
quote the adage that the age of man is limited to three score and ten years, 
yet the same authority says: "Man's days shall be 120 years," and it is in 
evidence that Moses attained to that age, and further that his vision was 
not dimmed, nor his step faltering. 

The anti-deluvians lived on fruits, seeds and nuts. That their diet 
proved productive of long life is shown in the fact that they lived to be sev- 
eral hundred years old, as did Mathusalah. 

It was not until after the flood that man commenced to eat flesh, and 
the disasterous effects of his indiscretion was seen in the alleged fact that 
ere long the life of man dropped to one hundred and twenty years, and in 
not many generations to three score years and ten. I am firm in the belief 
that if mankind, en masse, were obedient to the commands of the Bible to 
eat no flesh, we should see a gradual prolongation of life, each generation 
approximating a little nearer to the old standard. 

I have gone over the ground of the effects of flesh eating and the 
great superiority of the plant foods from the standpoint of their diminion over 
man sufficiently, I think, to conclusively show that the Bible mandate pro- 
hibiting flesh as food was conceived in Infinite wisdom, therefore to be obeyed. 
I do not wonder that the flesh of the hog was pronounced an unclean abomi- 
nation under the law, and that the use of swine's flesh was named an iniquity, 
and those who fed upon it "lusters." 

If our boards of health were doing their duty they would petition our 
legislatures to make the old law binding, as a sanitary measure, if for no 
other. But whether our health officers do or do not do their duty, swine's 
flesh will be consigned to oblivion, and the other flesh foods will follow later, 
for the reasons stated. The great cost of its production, and the practice of 
embalming, combined with the greed of the "Beef trust," will place it beyond 
the reach of the wage worker of the future, and from that view point poverty 
will prove a blessing rather than a curse. 



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Added to all this there- are educational influences at work of a hygienic, 
ethical and religious character that will in the near future be the means of 
opening the blind eyes of the masses to the folly of using flesh as food, from 
all the standpoints mentioned, especially the ECONOMICAL and HEALTH 
considerations, will command respect. 

The subject of proper hygienic conditions are coming so rapidly to the 
front in the minds of thinking people that they bid fair to assume their proper 
importance among the vital questions of the day, it being recognized every- 
where as essential to the moral and spiritual man. 

Reader, I have pointed out many solid facts which go to show that 
the food we eat is among the first, if not the prime factor, in the formation 
of national character. These facts show that if it is desirable to populate 
the world with fighters, wife beaters, murderers, drunkards, and every con- 
ceivable form of evil, feed mankind on flesh, raw or nearly so, without any 
admixture of plant food. 

On the other hand, if it is deemed advisable to populate the world 
with a peaceable, law-abiding, intellectual, moral and religious people, facts 
already cited show that the nearer mankind approximates to the Bible 
dietary the nearer it will approximate to the desired result, and yet those 
at the head of our schools and colleges isolate themselves from such solid 
ground from which to draw conclusions and as a result their well intended 
efforts are neutralized by the consumption of flesh foods, and the long train 
of evils that follow in their train — often dypsomania or the drink curse. 

All the long train of evils following the use of fish foods, graphically 
and grewsomely portrayed by Anton Seigafritz, the German scientist referred 
to, bears a wider range of application than fish foods, as I have shown by 
experiments of Cromwell on a garrison of soldiers, etc. The Foreign Mis- 
sionary Society long since came to the conclusion that it was a useless ex- 
penditure of time, money and energy to seek to convert the cannibals of the 
South Sea, while the richest harvest of converts have been gleaned from 
the rice eaters of the Orient. Have such facts no bearing upon the question 
of food, as to their moulding influence on man's religious nature? 



A WORD TO MINISTERS. 

When in my prestage I often accepted invitations from Ministerial 
Alliances to elucidate the value of fasting as a means of mental and spiritual 
illumination. On such occasions I emphasized the imperative need of emu- 
lating the heroic example of Daniel and his companions in the palace of the 
king. 

The evidence of scores of ministers who have tested Daniel's example 
report a decided gain in intellectual output, and if this be true of the pulpit, 
there must for the same reason be a corresponding gain in the receptive 
powers of those in the pews. 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 101 

Evangelist George F. Pentecost was among the first to blaze the way, 
and bring out from obscurity and neglect the hidden meaning of the deca- 
logue. He has clearly pointed out that the kitchens and stomachs of the 
nations have become subject to a revised edition of a very important part 
of the moral law, and has made it appear that gluttony, especially Sabbath 
gluttony, should become a sombre memory of Sabbath desecration of a very 
pronounced type. Heed the reverened gentleman's well timed exhortations 
in his introduction to a book entitled "True Science of Living," written by 
Dr. Dewey of Meadville, Pa. In it the celebrated evangelist, for the benefit 
of his fellow ministers, says: "Always go into your pulpits and your bed with 
empty stomach. Follow this rule as nearly as you can and I will guarantee 
the largest measure of health and strength that is possible in your case. 

"In any case I most seriously and heartily recommend that preachers 
give up eating breakfast, and they will know in themselves in less than two 
months whether the doctrine is based on sound principles, or whether it 
be the vagery of a quack. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." It 
will certainly do no one any harm to leave off the breakfast for three 
months, and it is equally almost certain that before that time has elapsed 
any one so doing will need no further argument. 

GEORGE L. PENTICOST." 
"London, England, November 9th, 1894." 



OTHER MINISTERS TESTIFY. 

Ministers who have acted on the Penticost suggestion have found the 
results immediately most striking; so with college students. Ministers find 
that by "crucifying the lusts of the flesh" they have put the house in order 
for the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, which is the inspiring force 
on all Penticostal occasions, past and present. They find they can do more 
work, more study every hour on the "no breakfast" plan than formerly they 
could do in a whole day, and as for complaining stomachs, as a rule they 
had ceased their rebellion at once. Many by dropping off at least two-thirds 
of the amount of food usually consumed experience a marvelous change. 
Many in the ripest periods of manhood believe the tide of life has changed 
back, as in my own case, that they have reached the mental and physical 
capacity of their college days, and are rejoicing every hour over the great 
rejuvination. Many are coming to know that there must be physical health 
where there is moral health, and that there must be both to attain to the 
highest pulpit efficiency. 

I could cite hundreds of cases where ministers, lawyers and doctors 
have adopted the plan suggested by Mr. Pentecost, with physical, mental and 
moral powers at high tide, at all times, but must limit testimonials to the 
following, and from its character many others can be judged. 



10£ THE HUMAN BODY 

Dudley, N. C, December 18th, 1900. 
Mr. Charles C. Haskell, Norwich, Conn.: 

Dear Sir — Long before hearing of the books published by you on 
"HEALTH BY RIGHT LIVING." I had read much on the subject by Drs. 
James C. Jackson, Page and others, and I had learned also what they did 
not SUFFICIENTLY teach, that abstinence from food on mornings devoted 
to study or preaching was an invaluable help. ESPECIALLY on Sunday 
mornings it was my custom to omit breakfast when I wanted to be at my 
best, and I was hardly ever disappointed. 

Once, between fifteen and twenty years ago, I spent thirteen months 
living on one meal a day, and for a part of that time eating nothing at all on 
Sundays. 

Those were ideal times. I got so used to it I enjoyed it. My food was 
always PALATABLE and ACCEPTABLE when I came to it, but I was never 
INPATIENT for it. I lost the "old fashioned craving" which we call hunger, 
and had a most EXCELLENT appetite when I began to breakfast. I did not 
begin the one meal a day plan with any suspicion of its help as a "mind 
builder." Dr. C. Jackson had written of his power over NATURAL passions 
and propensities, and I wanted to be self mastered. I was very agreeably 
surprised to find, after about ten days to two weeks of such living, that my 
mind was overpowering itself in ways never suspected possible. What I 
would read one evening would be almost as clear in my vision the next 
morning as if I were beholding the page. There was no distraction, no mind 
wandering. Others beside myself noticed that something had happened to 
me. I would rise in the morning, and when the family were at breakfast 
I was in my study. Hour after hour I spent in studies largely secular, until 
10 A. M. Then, because I found that the last two hours of abstinence were 
my BEST hours, I betook myself to Bible studies, and for two solid hours 
studied with a view to the coming Sunday's work. Then, after a nap of an 
hour or so did pastorial visiting, and at night attended and helped in some 
meeting or another as opportunity offered. 

One thing I noticed about these evening meetings was the wonderful 
clearness and musicalness of my voice, and the marvelous ease with which I 
could take the tenor or any tune presented, even if I had never seen it, until 
the hymn was announced. 

What I had sought I had found, and much more. My passion "was 
subdued. "The wolf dwelt with the lamb; the leopard lay down with the kid. 
The calf and the young lion and the fatling were together; the lion ate straw 
with the ox." — Isiah, 6 and 7. 

Soon I realized something else wonderful. I had read Dr. Page's "Not 
Catching Cold"; before I had no experience with it, under the old way of 
living. I soon learned that I had forgotten how to take cold. No impru- 
dence, ACCIDENTAL or PURPOSED, could bring one on. At times since 
for a month or so I have lived that way, but not right on and on. When I 
received from you your book, "THE TRUE SCIENCE OF LIVING," and 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 103 

for my wife, "A NEW ERA FOR WOMEN," I began the "no breakfast" plan, 
and I find it a genuine health bringer to spirit, soul and body. I am well 
used to it. When I began I thought it well to drink a little water in the 
morning, but I soon forgot to drink, that now I just let it go. I do not find 
any necessity for food or drink until long past the noon hour. I have brought 
the matter to the attention of my church, and one of my members, a woman 
past forty, who from infancy was cursed with scrofula and similar troubles, 
began April 1st, 1900, to do without breakfast, and not only she, but every 
body who knows her, knows that she has undergone a wonderful change. 
She realizes that she has an entirely new body, with no trace of the old 
ailments. 

I am so thankful for this "New Gospel." It is a gospel I believe Jesus 
himself would preach and practice if now He was God incarnate in the flesh. 

God bless you and make your forthcoming book a blessing to dull, 
heavy, spiritless people all over our broad land, and all over the globe. 
Yours sincerely, REV. R. B. JOHNS. 

My friends, I ask you in behalf of God and humanity to heed the timely 
exhortations of your esteemed brother in the ministry, George F. P. Penti- 
cost, and others. Do your utmost to unite science and religion on the food 
question in the holy bonds of wedlock, and the church will soon see such 
an evolution in men's spiritual unfolding that nothing in art, or science, prose 
or poetry, nothing in song service or in all nature, from the lowest forms of 
animate life; nothing that ever eminated from the intellect of men, or a 
human heart that the temple of the living God, of which you are jointly the 
custodians, with physicians, cannot realize with keenest sense or see with 
clearest vision. 

Some of those who are living in obedience to the Bible mandates have 
been so quickened, spiritually, that they could hear the flowers open, and 
the "music of the spheres," and the stars singing as they shine; "The hand 
that made us is Divine." Yet such facts are attested to by many who have 
become attuned to the Infinite melody. 

When we reach a point in our spiritual development that we realize 
that every time we eat we are soul sculpturing for eternity, then prospectively 
the recrudesance of all mankind will follow. Its practical workings will be 
seen in all lines of human endeavor, commercial, mechanical, agricultural, 
architectural, journalistic, etc., for the most amazing promulgation of ad- 
vanced scientific ideas are shaping events the magnitude of which paralyzes 
all human description, language is impoverished, and the living light of elo- 
quence darkened forever." 

In comparison with what will follow, wireless telegraphy sinks into 
insignificance. Such pigmies as inventors of airships, automobiles, telephones, 
ocean cables, telescopes, compressed air; even forty days' f asters will have 
to go away back and keep silent. In short, I think it safe to assume that in 
the next half century following the union of science and religion on the food 
problem we would realize an answer to the prayer of the ages: "Thy king- 
dom come." 



104 THE HUMAN BODY 



ADDENDA. 

In my explorations in the domain of theology for truths long hid in 
obscurity and neglect, and bringing to the surface Bible truths seldom 
brought into prominence by Bible commentators, I cannot reasonably claim 
exemption from errors. 

I make no claim to infallibility. All that I aspire to accomplish along 
the line of collating and compiling the materials for this book is to blaze the 
way for some writer better qualified for the task. I invite honest criticism. 
In that way I may learn to see myself as others see me. 

Just as it is, however, I submit my amateur product to a candid and 
discerning public, with the hope that any criticism it may arouse may not 
be wholly destructive, but in some measure constructive; that it may not only 
expose error, but suggest corrections, so that by the combined intelligence of 
many of the Higher Criticism cult some closer approximation to the truth 
may be made than I dare prsume to have reached, notwithstanding the con- 
fidence I have in the general correctness of the methods of investigations 
pursued and the conclusions to which it has led. 

In the opening pages of this book I cited interesting indications of the 
trend of religious thought, all showing a marked tendency towards adapting 
church methods to meet the general progress of this mind-opening age. 
Back to the primative COMMUNISTIC church is the echoing and re-echoing 
sentiment. If not so voiced it does not require the vision of a seer to so 
interpret the "signs of the times." A seeress sees forces in sublime activity 
interpret the "signs of the times." A seeress who sees forces in sublime activ- 
ity everywhere manifesting a godilke force, blazing the way for a church 
universal, 

Says: "I know its coming! coming! 
To help to guide, to save, 
Though I hear no marshal drumming, 
I see no flags that wave. 
The crucial age of reason, 
And the bold free thought unfurled 
Heralds the model is on the way — 
The coming church of the world." 



A VOLUME OP DIVINE REVELATIONS 105 

The much slandered "Higher Criticism" that is pointing the way for 
a "Universal Church," is, strictly ■speaking, a search for truth. It recognizes 
a "Universal Church," is, strictly speaking, a search for truth, the whole 
truth and nothing but the truth. 

The revised edition of our Bible admits the palpable errors of trans- 
lations of the King James version and the urgent need of correction. There 
are other glaring errors that indicate another revision, and "Higher Criti- 
cism" is opening the way for it. 

For illustration: In the first chapter of Samuel, it is stated that it 
repented God that He had set up Saul to be king." In the fifteenth verse of 
the same chapter Samuel assures Saul that the Lord God will not lie or 
repent, for he is not a man that He should repent." 

The writer of the Penteteuch is on record as saying that he saw God 
in a cleft of a rock and talked with Him face to face. "Jesus affirmed that 
"No man hath seen God at any time, neither hath any heard His voice." 
Conflicting statements of this character might be multiplied in numbers. 



THE CONSTRUCTIVE VALUE OF HIGHER CRITICISM. 

At a recent convention of representative men of all denominations, the 
CONSTRUCTIVE value of "Higher Criticism" was the topic. Several min- 
isters assailed the dogma of the "Inerrency of the Bible." Rev. Loring W. 
Patten, professor of Old Testiment exegisis in the General Theological Semi- 
nary of New York, read a paper on "The History Value of the Old Testa- 
ment History." He cited numerous instances in the Old Testament, credited 
as miraculous, that are now brought within the range of everyday possibili- 
ties. The historical forty days fasts of Moses, Elijah and Jesus were so 
chronicled; but my fasts — one of 42 days and the second of 40 days — nulli- 
fied the claims of traditional theology. 

The Rev. Ernest M. Paddock, rector of Emmanuel Church, Allegany, Pa., 
treated the Bible as literature. It was his view that books of the Old Testa- 
ment are not properly works of authors to whom they are commonly credited. 

The Rev. Lester Bradner of Providence, R. I., said reference to the 
Bible was becoming a hollow sham until "Higher Criticism" saved it by their 
laudable endeavors to make it reasonable." 

The Rev. H. E. W. Fosbroke, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, 
literature of Neshatah Theological Seminary, argued that the customs, laws 
and religious observances of the Hebrews were borrowed in great part from 
the nations among whom they lived. 



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HIGHER CRITICISM MAKING HEADWAY AGAINST THE SOLID FRONT 

OF JUDAISM. 

Says Dr. Emil C. Hirch, of Chicago Temple Israel: "Many of you, no 
doubt, hold that the manuscripts of the Bible have been preserved as written, 
without the alteration of a jot or tittle; and that its teachings are literally 
true and infallible. But where such sentiments are found among Jews, it 
is because they have been absorbed from the Christian theologians. The 
text of the Bible has been corrupted. The Bible did not produce religion, but 
religion produced the Bible. It is the product of human genius. But although 
it is not infallible, its ideas are as valuable as if it were. The Bible may 
have its faults, and yet be an inestimable treasure to the pious heart." 



MINISTERS ORGANIZE A SOCIALISTIC CONFERENCE. 

NEW YORK, May 19. — Is there a fast growing tendency among the 
ministers of the United States to become socialists? Three hundred of the 
clergy — Unitarians, Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians — are 
socialists now by open confession. Many times this number are believed to 
be secretly in sympathy with the cause. 

New York ministers recently organized a "Ministers' Socialist Con- 
ference." A convention will be held in New York from June 1 to June 8 to 
make the organization a national one. 

Rev. John D. Long, pastor of the Park Side Presbyterian church, 
Brooklyn, is secretary of the conference. "Clergymen," he says, "have come 
to the conclusion Christianity will not work under a competitive commercial 
system, and that the inauguration of socialism is necessary for civilized 
human beings. Therefore it is the duty of the church to step in and advocate 
Christian socialism in the United States. 

"H. H. Rogers says business is war; if business is war, and if, as Gen. 
Sherman said, war is hell, then business and the competitive system must also 
be hell." 

I believe that the socialism advocated by New York ministers 
in convention assembled is the socialism of the primitive church portrayed 
in the second of Acts, reproduced in the Incas lives on this continent, 
looming up as the prospective goal to which the church of the near future is 
tending. For further elucidation of this prospective good I call attention 
of the reader to the Title Page of a New Volumn of Revela- 
tions named Oahspe. In that book the earnest seeker after truth finds an 
elucidation of the modus operandi of the All Highest Wisdom to answer 
the prayer of the ages, "Thy kingdom come," and the fulfillment of the 
sweet prophesy of a Divine kingdom on the earth. 

I commend a thoughtful, prayerful reading of the Gospels in the light 
of Oahspe's suggestion to all interested in so-called "Higher Criticism." 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 107 

OAHSPE 

A New Bible, in the Words of 

Jehovah and His Angel 

Ambassadors 



A Sacred History of the Dominions of the Higher and Lower Heavens of the 

Earth for the Past Twenty-four Thousand Years, being from the 

Submersion of the Continent of Pan, in the Pacific Ocean, 

Commonly Called the Flood or Deluge, to the Kosmon 

Era, being a Brief History of the Preceeding 

Fifty-five Thousand Years. 

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A Synopsis of the Cosmogony of the Universe; the Creation of the Planets; 
The Creation of Man; The Unseen Worlds; The Labor and Glory of 
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Present Day, with Revelations from the Sec- 
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in the Thirty-third Year of 
the Kosman Era. 



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bo in this Bible it is revealed how the Creator created it. As other Bibles 
have proclaimed heavens for the Spirits of "the dead," behold this Bible 
revealeth where these heavens are and the manner and glory and work that 
the spirits of the dead enjoy, whereby the wisdom, power, love and glory of 
the Almighty are magnified for the understanding of men. 

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(Known as the Hollenbeck Park Sanatorium, Boyle Heights) 



H. B. 



WEIPER, M. D., Medical Director. 

Professor R. W. READING, Masseur. 

H. S. TANNER, M. D., Professor of Hygiene and Dietetics. 



This institution is fully equipped with all up-to-date appliances for the 
treatment of all diseases. 



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ELECTRIC, GRECO-ROM 
and What Their 

cure colds, 
relieve pain, 
cure lumbago, 
promote sleep, 
cure la grippe, 
cure dyspepsia, 
cleanse the skin, 
purify the blood, 
ward off disease, 
destroy parasites, 
cure torpid liver, 
improve digestion, 
cure nasal catarrh, 
cure skin eruptions, 
improve complexion, 
strengthen the tissues, 
increase nervous energy. 



AN AND TURKISH BATHS 
Treatment Will Do. 

They remove the cause of disease. 
They soothe and quiet the nerves. 
They cure rheumatism in all forms. 
They impart magnetism to the body. 
They taken stiffness out of the joints. 
They harden and strengthen the sys- 
tem. 

They destroy the germs in the blood. 
They benefit Bright's disease. 

They restore to healthy action 7,000,- 
000 pores. 

There is hardly a disease that can re- 
sist the power of the great electric 
sun bath. 



Greco-Roman and Turkish Baths for Ladies and Gentlemen 

Rest Room, Library, Gymnasium, Massage Rooms, Hot Rooms. 
Finest and most complete on the coast. 

Prof. R. W. Reading's Greco-Roman Baths and Massage Give New Life and Health 



110 THE HUMAN BODY 

Naturopathic Institute and Sanitorium 

556-560 S. HOPE ST., LOS ANGELES, CAL. 

NATUROPATHY means the healing of all disases with natural 
remedies. This method is based upon common sense and 
knowledge. We simply assist nature to do its duty. 
The Naturopath's Materia Medica consists of the 
elements derived from Nature, such as: — Light, Air, Water, 
Heat, Clay, Sun, besides: Non-Stimulating Diet, Exercise, Rest, 
Electricity, Magnetism, Massage, Swedish Movements, Vibratherapy, 
Chromotherapy, Osteopathy, Chiro-Practic, Herbs, Suggestion, Ortho- 
pedic Surgery. 



LOCATION 



The Institute and Sanatorium is centrally located, two blocks 
west of Central Park, on the quietest section of South Hope Street, 
between Sixth Street and the State Normal School, and can be 
reached by the Washington Street, Crown Hill and Brooklyn Ave- 
nue cars. Several other cars pass within a block. The Sanatorium 
has large open porches and a nice secluded garden. 

The rooms for patients are bright and sunny, steam heated and 
comfortably furnished. 

THE DIET 

The Diet is simple, but wholesome, all condiments, pastries, and 
stimulating beverages are eliminated, the combinations of foods 
are taught to our patients. 

The Sanatorium is open to Convalescents, Persons in need of 
diet and rest, and to Patients with acute and chronic diseases, such 
as Appendicitis, Diabetes, Bright's Disease, Gout, Rheumatism, Spinal 
Curvature, Paralysis, Stomach and Female Complaints, Hip Diseases, 
Insane or Offensive Patients not admitted. 

OUR TREATMENT ROOMS 

are Sunny, Sanitary, Steam Heated and equipped with the latest and 
best Naturopathic Therapeutic Agencies. 

Electric Light, Hot Air, Vapor, Electric, Sun, Herbal, Needle, 
Shower, Sitz and Friction Baths. 

We give Massage, Swedish Movements, Vibration, Electricity, 
Osteopathy, Chiro-Practic, (vertebrae adjustment), Orthopedic Sur- 
gery, Packs, Gushes, Compresses, Douches, Sprays, etc. 

PHYSICIANS 

Competent Physicians, Naturopaths, Osteopaths and Chiro- 
Practic, Master of Electricity, as well as Orthopedic Surgeons in 
charge, the Masseurs, Electricians on duty are graduates of the 
Institute and are under the direct supervision of Dr. Carl Schultz; 
every patient is treated under his direction. For outside patients 
the treatment rooms will be open from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. 

Rooms, Board and Treatment from $25 up per week; for office 
patients, from $2 up per treatment. 

WRITE FOR PROSPECTUS. 



A VOLUME OF DIVINE REVELATIONS 111 

HEALTHOLOGY 

Is the title of a new book by 

IRVING J. EALES, M. D. 



Which demonstrates that PERFECT HEALTH may be yours 
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constituents in relation to the requirements of the body. Part II, 
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of many marvelous cures. Part III. gives a detailed history of the 
author's 31 days' fast while working twelve hours daily dur- 
ing the fast, and undergoing tests of strength and endur- 
ance to demonstrate the endurance and strength of 
the body during a prolonged fast. The most 
remarkable fast on record, as the energy 
used every day for 31 days was equal to 
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of 75 or 80 days, where the faster 
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112 THE HUMAN BODY 

The undersigned heartily concurs in all that the noted arthur of 
"HEALTHOLOGY" says commendatory of HORLICK'S MALTED MILK 
as a rejuvenator in all conditions of the body where weariness attends the 
expenditure of force. In proof of my high esteem of Irving J. Eales, M. D., 
and his laudations of Horlick's Malted Milk as a FAST breaker, I close with 
the subjoining card to the public: 

The undersigned, as a specialist for the treatment of diseases by dieting, 
is well known to the end of the telegraphic world as the pioneer forty days 
faster. With fifty years experience as a physician, I assume that ninety per 
cent of all diseases are caused by intemperance in eating and drinking. 

Who hath heartburn, dyspepsia, rheumatism and the like? They that 
tarry long at the hot bread; they that dote on hot greasy griddle cakes; they 
that gulp down ham, sausage, doughnuts, and the like; they that put pickles, 
rinegar, coffee, cream and other incompatibles into their stomachs with the 
above; they that tarry but fifteen minutes to swallow an avalanche of indigest- 
able matter; they that retire with their stomachs filled to repletion with 
midnight menu's of lobster salad; for whom the wine merchant bottles 
up "BRIGHT'S DISEASE," falsely labelling it sherry or champagne. 

The common sense method of arresting disease is to stop the cause, 
then the effects will cease. I have investigated the innumerable specifics on 
the market for the cure of that "tired feeling," so common among the class 
who "live to eat," and I'm compelled to say in all sincerity that in Horlick's 
Malted Milk I have found a DELICIOUS FOOD drink that meets all the 
requirements of each individual case of enfeebled, broken down cell tissue. 

Many of the advertised remedies, misnamed "stimulants and tonics," 
are well known to owe their stimulating effect to an effort of nature to banish 
them as intruders from the body, causing an expenditure of force similar to 
the application of the whip to a jaded horse. 

I believe if Horlick's Malted Milk were in general use there 
would be no need to be spending days and nights discussing the best way 
of curing indigestion and quieting jangled nerves and rousing languid appe- 
tites and trying to extract the darts from outraged livers, and when the 
victims come to die their cadavers would not cause people to affirm that 
they died from remorse because they starved themselves by gulping unwhol- 
some food, corrupted by unholy cookery. Use Horlick's Malted Milk in place 
of your tea, coffee, wine, beef tea and you afflicted ones can give physicians 
a furlough for life, druggists and undertakers ditto, and the public will no 
longer be outraged by reading epetaphs on your tombstones false enough 
to make the marble blush. Call for Horlick's Malted Milk literature at any 
drug store, for further particulars. Then try it and no further argument will 
be needed. 

HENRY S. TANNER, M. D., Long Beach, Calif. 



